334: A Novel
by Thomas M. Disch
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375705449
- ISBN 13
- 9780375705441
- Seller
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About This Item
If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world of rationed babies and sanctioned drug addiction. Real food is displayed in museums and hospital attendants moonlight as body-snatchers.
Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.
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- Shop-books.ca (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202000600
- Title
- 334
- Author
- Thomas M. Disch
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375705449
- ISBN 13
- 9780375705441
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- This edition first published
- April 27, 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature; Science Fiction;
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