The arrest
Lethem, Jonathan2021
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The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes, for starters - stops working. Before the Arrest, Sandy Duplessis had a reasonably good life as a screenwriter in LA. An old college friend and writing partner, the charismatic and malicious Peter Todbaum, had become one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. That didn't hurt. Now, post-Arrest, nothing is what it was. Sandy, who calls himself Journeyman, has landed in rural Maine. There he assists the butcher and delivers the food grown by his sister, Maddy, at her organic farm. But then Todbaum shows up in an extraordinary vehicle: a retrofitted tunnel-digger powered by a nuclear reactor. Todbaum has spent the Arrest smashing his way across a fragmented and phantasmagorical United States, trailing enmities all the way.
Main title:
The arrest / Jonathan Lethem.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Atlantic, 2021.London : Atlantic, 2021.
Collation:
307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2020.
ISBN:
9781838952174 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2510889