Gamelife - Rilegato

Clune, Michael W.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0865478287 ISBN 13: 9780865478282

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015

Riassunto

You have been awakened.

Floppy disk inserted, computer turned on, a whirring, and then this sentence, followed by a blinking cursor. So begins Suspended, the first computer game to obsess seven-year-old Michael, to worm into his head and change his sense of reality. Thirty years later he will write: "Computer games have taught me the things you can't learn from people."

Gamelife is the memoir of a childhood transformed by technology. Afternoons spent gazing at pixelated maps and mazes train Michael's eyes for the uncanny side of 1980s suburban Illinois. A game about pirates yields clues to the drama of cafeteria politics and locker-room hazing. And in the year of his parents' divorce, a spaceflight simulator opens a hole in reality.

In telling the story of his youth through seven computer games, Michael W. Clune captures the part of childhood we live alone.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael W. Clune is a professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of the memoir White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin and of two scholarly books, American Literature in the Free Market and Writing Against Time.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0865478287
• ISBN 13: 9780865478282
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 211