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Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is 'one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.' Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, 'Own...
Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs, confront their pasts in this story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem.
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It all begins in modest Rockford, Illinois, where Charlotte starts to plot her escape practically from birth. Spiky and elusive, she becomes a big-time fashion model, then nearly dies in a car crash on a spontaneous trip back to her hometown. Her famous face is so thoroughly smashed that 80 titanium screws are used to reconstruct it; the result is a visage no one recognizes and a life in shambles. Charlotte's groping for a new sense of self is paired...
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