Isbn: 9798193713654 - the man who rented other people's lives: a darkly comic speculative novel about identity, technology, and the price of becoming someone else (2 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Elliot Vane has lived 147 lives. None of them were his.In the near future, a company called Elsewhere offers the ultimate escape.Don't rent a house.Rent a life.For the right price, clients can temporarily become someone else-living in their home, going to their job, following their routines, spending time with their friends, and stepping into a life already waiting for them.Elliot is one of Elsewhere's best professional renters.He knows the rules.Don't quit the client's job.Don't end their relationships.Don't make irreversible decisions.And above all: Don't forget that the life belongs to someone else.Then Elliot receives the most lucrative assignment of his career.Thirty days.One million dollars.A beautiful house.A successful company.A loving wife.Two children.The seemingly perfect life of Adrian Vale.On Elliot's second day, however, a stranger stops him in the street.She has only one warning: "You're not the first man they hired to be him."Elliot begins digging.Three renters occupied Adrian's life before him.All three disappeared.Adrian himself may never have gone on vacation.His wife knows Elliot isn't her husband.His children know.His friends know.Everyone knows.And nobody seems particularly interested in having the real Adrian return.Then, halfway through the contract, Elliot receives a notification from Elsewhere: CONGRATULATIONS.THE FAMILY HAS CHOSEN TO KEEP YOU.Suddenly Elliot isn't being paid to borrow another man's life.He's fighting to stop it from becoming his permanently.And when he finally tries to return to the only life that truly belongs to him, he discovers something Elsewhere never mentioned in the contract: Someone else may already be living it.THE MAN WHO RENTED OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES is a darkly funny speculative novel about identity, technology, money, work, family, and a world where even being yourself has become a subscription service. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…