Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Autor David Shaferen Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mai 2015
One
ofTimeMagazine's
Ten
Best
Books
of
2014
Selected
by
NPR,
Slate,
and
Kirkus
as
one
of
the
Best
Books
of
2014
Shortlisted
for
the
Pacific
Northwest
Book
Award
The
Committee,
an
international
cabal
of
industrialists
and
media
barons,
is
on
the
verge
of
privatizing
all
information.
Dear
Diary,
an
idealistic
online
Underground,
stands
in
the
way
of
that
takeover,
using
radical
politics,
classic
spycraft,
and
technology
that
makes
Big
Data
look
like
dial-up.
Into
this
secret
battle
stumbles
an
unlikely
trio:
Leila
Majnoun,
a
disillusioned
non-profit
worker;
Leo
Crane,
an
unhinged
trustafarian;
and
Mark
Deveraux,
a
phony
self-betterment
guru
who
works
for
the
Committee.
Leo
and
Mark
were
best
friends
in
college,
but
early
adulthood
has
set
them
on
diverging
paths.
Growing
increasingly
disdainful
of
Mark's
platitudes,
Leo
publishes
a
withering
takedown
of
his
ideas
online.
But
the
Committee
is
reading--and
erasing--Leo's
words.
On
the
other
side
of
the
world,
Leila's
discoveries
about
the
Committee's
far-reaching
ambitions
threaten
to
ruin
those
who
are
closest
to
her.
In
the
spirit
of
William
Gibson
and
Chuck
Palahniuk,Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrotis
both
a
suspenseful
global
thriller
and
an
emotionally
truthful
novel
about
the
struggle
to
change
the
world
in-
and
outside
your
head.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316252652
ISBN-10: 0316252654
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
ISBN-10: 0316252654
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Mulholland Books
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Notă biografică
David
Shaferis
a
graduate
of
Harvard
and
the
Columbia
Journalism
School.
He
has
lived
in
Argentina
and
Dublin,
and
has
been
a
journalist,
sometimes
a
carpenter,
once
a
taxi
driver
and
briefly
a
flack
for
an
NGO.
He
now
lives
in
Portland
with
his
wife,
daughter,
and
son.
Recenzii
"Is
it
too
late
to
nominate
a
candidate
for
novel
of
the
summer?
.
.
.
A
paranoid,
sarcastic
and
clattering
pop
thriller
.
.
.
Mr.
Shafer
gets
the
playfulness-to-paranoia
ratio
about
exactly
right.
.
.
.
He's
got
a
sick
wit
and
a
high
style.
Reading
his
prose
is
like
popping
a
variant
of
the
red
pill
inThe
Matrix:Everything
gets
a
little
crisper.
.
.
.Whiskey
Tango
Foxtrotis
a
page-turner,
yet
many
more
"literary"
writers
will,
I
suspect,
envy
Mr.
Shafer's
tactile
prose.
His
eye
is
hawklike.
.
.
.
Mr.
Shafer
has
written
a
bright,
brash
entertainment,
one
that
errs,
when
it
errs
at
all,
on
the
side
of
generosity,
narrative
and
otherwise.
It
tips
you,
geekily
and
humanely,
through
the
looking
glass."—Dwight
Garner,New
York
Times
"Genius techno-thriller à la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy à la Dave Eggers."—Lev Grossman,Time
"Zinging with wit and pop culture savvy . . . Shafer's writing is hip, wickedly hilarious, cutting edge, and ultimately concerned with old-fashioned notions of morality and redemption. . . His inventive, comic, dystopian semi-thriller restored my faith in fiction."—Mark Lindquist,Seattle Times
"Smart, funny . . . A techno-thriller with a soul . . . Shafer etches diamond-sharp and precisely observed contemporary satire."—Laura Miller,Salon
"A unique literary treat . . . As ambitious a fiction debut as you're ever likely to encounter . . . At turns the novel feels like a breakneck spy thriller, until, just around the next corner it morphs into a darkly comedic look at the realities of the human condition in our increasingly technology-fueled world."—Brooke Wylie,Examiner.com
"Shafer's savvy, sardonic take on our social media- and Big Data-worshiping society is as current as your Twitter feed..Just in time for your August beach trip, put Whiskey on your Amazon Wish List. As if they don't already know you want it."—Patty Rhule,USA Today
"Shafer hits all the right buttons in his debut as he mixes crime fiction, espionage, and SF in a darkly comic novel."—Publishers Weekly (starred)
"An edgy, darkly comedic novel whose characters and premise are as up-to-the-minute as an online news feed but as classic as the counterculture rebellions once evoked by Edward Abbey and Ken Kesey...Shafer's arch prose, comedic timing and deft feel for shadowy motives in high places are reminiscent of the late Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate), only with sweeter, sweeper characterizations...It's possible that Shafer is remaking the international thriller into something more humane and thus more credible."—Kirkus Reviews
"Hilarious, moving, and wildly ambitious, David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot reads like a plot against America dreamed up by the NSA and then ghostwritten by Don DeLillo-a love story-cum-international thriller about our surveillance society that's so convincingly paranoid you'll tape over your webcam. Forget debut: it marks the arrival of a major new writer."—Adam Ross,author of Mr. Peanut
"Roaming from Burma to Oregon to a mysterious ship in the open ocean, David Shafer's debut novel is a stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect and offers a dark, incisive vision of the global consequences of turning our lives into collectable data. This book will stay with you long after you've finished it."—Maggie Shipstead,author of Astonish Me
"Outlandishly clever. Evoking the technological-paranoia of Philip K. Dick and the verbal pyrotechnics of David Foster Wallace, Shafer's digital take-over is absurdly comical and all too familiar. The characters are complicated, fascinating, and fully engaging while the threats feel frighteningly real."—Joe Meno,author of The Great Perhaps
"David Shafer's amazing debut novel should be a controlled substance, its addictive quotient of the highest order. I devoured it imagining this is what a brainstorming event between Thomas Pynchon and Edward Snowden would deliver."—Bob Shacochis,author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
"Hilarious and chilling, fast-paced and thoughtful,Whiskey Tango Foxtrotis literary entertainment of the highest order. While the novel reads like a comic thriller, it speaks powerfully to our over-connected, over-watched, privacy-depleted moment. I admire the hell out of it."—Ken Kalfus,National Book Award nominated author of Equilateral
"A Graham Greene novel written by Edward Snowden. The Anonymous novel I have been waiting for -- a stiletto thriller of the too-real panopticon digitizing our every breath nowadays."—Tom Paine,author of Scar Vegas
"Genius techno-thriller à la Neal Stephenson, powered by social-media info-conspiracy à la Dave Eggers."—Lev Grossman,Time
"Zinging with wit and pop culture savvy . . . Shafer's writing is hip, wickedly hilarious, cutting edge, and ultimately concerned with old-fashioned notions of morality and redemption. . . His inventive, comic, dystopian semi-thriller restored my faith in fiction."—Mark Lindquist,Seattle Times
"Smart, funny . . . A techno-thriller with a soul . . . Shafer etches diamond-sharp and precisely observed contemporary satire."—Laura Miller,Salon
"A unique literary treat . . . As ambitious a fiction debut as you're ever likely to encounter . . . At turns the novel feels like a breakneck spy thriller, until, just around the next corner it morphs into a darkly comedic look at the realities of the human condition in our increasingly technology-fueled world."—Brooke Wylie,Examiner.com
"Shafer's savvy, sardonic take on our social media- and Big Data-worshiping society is as current as your Twitter feed..Just in time for your August beach trip, put Whiskey on your Amazon Wish List. As if they don't already know you want it."—Patty Rhule,USA Today
"Shafer hits all the right buttons in his debut as he mixes crime fiction, espionage, and SF in a darkly comic novel."—Publishers Weekly (starred)
"An edgy, darkly comedic novel whose characters and premise are as up-to-the-minute as an online news feed but as classic as the counterculture rebellions once evoked by Edward Abbey and Ken Kesey...Shafer's arch prose, comedic timing and deft feel for shadowy motives in high places are reminiscent of the late Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate), only with sweeter, sweeper characterizations...It's possible that Shafer is remaking the international thriller into something more humane and thus more credible."—Kirkus Reviews
"Hilarious, moving, and wildly ambitious, David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot reads like a plot against America dreamed up by the NSA and then ghostwritten by Don DeLillo-a love story-cum-international thriller about our surveillance society that's so convincingly paranoid you'll tape over your webcam. Forget debut: it marks the arrival of a major new writer."—Adam Ross,author of Mr. Peanut
"Roaming from Burma to Oregon to a mysterious ship in the open ocean, David Shafer's debut novel is a stylish, absorbing, sharply modern hybrid of techno thriller and psychodrama that bristles with wit and intellect and offers a dark, incisive vision of the global consequences of turning our lives into collectable data. This book will stay with you long after you've finished it."—Maggie Shipstead,author of Astonish Me
"Outlandishly clever. Evoking the technological-paranoia of Philip K. Dick and the verbal pyrotechnics of David Foster Wallace, Shafer's digital take-over is absurdly comical and all too familiar. The characters are complicated, fascinating, and fully engaging while the threats feel frighteningly real."—Joe Meno,author of The Great Perhaps
"David Shafer's amazing debut novel should be a controlled substance, its addictive quotient of the highest order. I devoured it imagining this is what a brainstorming event between Thomas Pynchon and Edward Snowden would deliver."—Bob Shacochis,author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
"Hilarious and chilling, fast-paced and thoughtful,Whiskey Tango Foxtrotis literary entertainment of the highest order. While the novel reads like a comic thriller, it speaks powerfully to our over-connected, over-watched, privacy-depleted moment. I admire the hell out of it."—Ken Kalfus,National Book Award nominated author of Equilateral
"A Graham Greene novel written by Edward Snowden. The Anonymous novel I have been waiting for -- a stiletto thriller of the too-real panopticon digitizing our every breath nowadays."—Tom Paine,author of Scar Vegas