Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
Autor Choire Sichaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2014
After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the richest man in town is the mayor. Billionaires shed apartments like last season’s fashions, even as the country’s economy turns inside out. The young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, micro-plane cheese graters, and sex apps.
A true-life fable of money, sex, and politics, Choire Sicha’sVery Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large Cityturns our focus to a year in the life of a great city.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780061914317
ISBN-10: 0061914312
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0061914312
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Textul de pe ultima copertă
What
will
the
future
make
of
us?
In one of the greatest cities in the world, billionaires shed apartments like last season's fashion trends while the country's economy turns inside out. Meanwhile, the young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and falling out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in. Choire Sicha's debut piece of narrative nonfiction, told in a scientifictive voice, follows a man named John and his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies while cataloguing artifacts of our very recent every day as if it were already forgotten: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, microplane cheese graters, and sex apps.
In one of the greatest cities in the world, billionaires shed apartments like last season's fashion trends while the country's economy turns inside out. Meanwhile, the young and careless go on as they always have, getting laid and getting laid off, falling in and falling out of love, and trying to navigate the strange world they traffic in. Choire Sicha's debut piece of narrative nonfiction, told in a scientifictive voice, follows a man named John and his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies while cataloguing artifacts of our very recent every day as if it were already forgotten: the Internet, complex financial markets, credit cards, pop stars, microplane cheese graters, and sex apps.
Recenzii
“The
only
book
our
ancestors
will
need…VERY
RECENT
HISTORY
would
start
a
revolution
if
we
knew
better.”
“Sicha’s prose, sweet and alienating by turns, transforms a city I know well and a year I lived through into something odd and wonderful.”
“Sicha vivisects the student-loan crisis, finance capital, and other plagues in the arch tone of one explaining it all to a naïf from the future—a rhetorical device that trains a floodlight on the great hypocrisies of our time. ”
“Very Recent History is a true story of the quiet desperation that comes from a world full of meanness—and hype. It’s also an intensely political book, quietly outraged…Very Recent History takes on all the right things.”
“This book will be especially useful for the generation it describes, who are so caught up in an infinite now that they risk forgetting, and repeating, slightly less recent history.”
“Sicha’s position as a journalist is so impressively embedded it could be described as vascular…A Vonnegut-esque manual of the era for future aliens interested in life in that lost empire known as 21st-Century America.”
“[The] most hilarious satire of the summer…a brave new amalgam of reportage and story…takes on the hyper-real gloss of an E! True Holywood Story, narrated as though by some earnest alien sociologist from the future.”
“An exemplary entry in—and in many ways a blistering critique of—a style of writing I think of as post-fiction. This writing represents a chiasmus between the real and the made-up, blurring the two into nonrecognition.”
“Perhaps among a next wave of books about gay folks as full American citizens that doesn’t bother walking them through schematic journeys meant to stand in for the American Gay Experience.”
“Sicha’s detached prose…makes that year feel more absurd than any of us might remember…a fresh look at a seemingly distant world that is actually our own.GRADE: A-”
“Has the same time-capsule charm as a book many of us read and were fascinated by in elementary school,Motel of the Mysteries, in which the world was destroyed and future generations were left to wonder at objects like a toilet.”
“Choire Sicha’s writing charms and delights, but beneath the biting wit and cynicism [he] dares to explore the darker underbelly of human avarice and capital, a book that’s equal parts blindingly terrifying and smartly humorous, and one of the most clever reads I’ve encountered in a long time.”
“I liked the part where everyone is discussing Truman Capote’s article about hanging out with Montgomery Clift.”
“You look up from the book to find that Sicha took the opportunity to screw a new pair of eyes into your sockets. With his distance and his wit, he’s showed you the ridiculousness, and the impossibly high value, of everything you take for granted.”
“Sicha’s uncanny, absurdist reduction is more than just a fun-to-read ruse: “Very Recent History” shames you, the reader, for losing sight, on a day-to-day basis, of just who is controlling your world… [VRH] is exultant in a way no mere clever premise can be.”
“Sicha’s prose, sweet and alienating by turns, transforms a city I know well and a year I lived through into something odd and wonderful.”
“Sicha vivisects the student-loan crisis, finance capital, and other plagues in the arch tone of one explaining it all to a naïf from the future—a rhetorical device that trains a floodlight on the great hypocrisies of our time. ”
“Very Recent History is a true story of the quiet desperation that comes from a world full of meanness—and hype. It’s also an intensely political book, quietly outraged…Very Recent History takes on all the right things.”
“This book will be especially useful for the generation it describes, who are so caught up in an infinite now that they risk forgetting, and repeating, slightly less recent history.”
“Sicha’s position as a journalist is so impressively embedded it could be described as vascular…A Vonnegut-esque manual of the era for future aliens interested in life in that lost empire known as 21st-Century America.”
“[The] most hilarious satire of the summer…a brave new amalgam of reportage and story…takes on the hyper-real gloss of an E! True Holywood Story, narrated as though by some earnest alien sociologist from the future.”
“An exemplary entry in—and in many ways a blistering critique of—a style of writing I think of as post-fiction. This writing represents a chiasmus between the real and the made-up, blurring the two into nonrecognition.”
“Perhaps among a next wave of books about gay folks as full American citizens that doesn’t bother walking them through schematic journeys meant to stand in for the American Gay Experience.”
“Sicha’s detached prose…makes that year feel more absurd than any of us might remember…a fresh look at a seemingly distant world that is actually our own.GRADE: A-”
“Has the same time-capsule charm as a book many of us read and were fascinated by in elementary school,Motel of the Mysteries, in which the world was destroyed and future generations were left to wonder at objects like a toilet.”
“Choire Sicha’s writing charms and delights, but beneath the biting wit and cynicism [he] dares to explore the darker underbelly of human avarice and capital, a book that’s equal parts blindingly terrifying and smartly humorous, and one of the most clever reads I’ve encountered in a long time.”
“I liked the part where everyone is discussing Truman Capote’s article about hanging out with Montgomery Clift.”
“You look up from the book to find that Sicha took the opportunity to screw a new pair of eyes into your sockets. With his distance and his wit, he’s showed you the ridiculousness, and the impossibly high value, of everything you take for granted.”
“Sicha’s uncanny, absurdist reduction is more than just a fun-to-read ruse: “Very Recent History” shames you, the reader, for losing sight, on a day-to-day basis, of just who is controlling your world… [VRH] is exultant in a way no mere clever premise can be.”