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America City
Taschenbuch von Chris Beckett
Sprache: Englisch

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An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow will be turbulent indeed.' - Guardian

America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south.

Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little.

But can they bring America together - or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?
An uneasy read that manages to feel both timely and urgent... Beckett offers an intelligent, visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow will be turbulent indeed.' - Guardian

America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south.

Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little.

But can they bring America together - or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?
Über den Autor
Chris Beckett is a former social worker and now university lecturer who lives in Cambridge. In 2009 he won the Edge Hill Short Story competition for his collection of stories, The Turing Test.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 360 S.
ISBN-13: 9781786491541
ISBN-10: 1786491540
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beckett, Chris
Hersteller: Grove Atlantic
Maße: 198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Beckett
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
Artikel-ID: 111687773
Über den Autor
Chris Beckett is a former social worker and now university lecturer who lives in Cambridge. In 2009 he won the Edge Hill Short Story competition for his collection of stories, The Turing Test.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 360 S.
ISBN-13: 9781786491541
ISBN-10: 1786491540
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Beckett, Chris
Hersteller: Grove Atlantic
Maße: 198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Beckett
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
Artikel-ID: 111687773
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