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Barcode30293101858772
LocationClark County
Call NoF Kunz
TitleRed pill : a novel / Hari Kunzru.
AuthorKunzru, Hari, 1969- author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101858772F Kunz9/17/2020 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780451493712 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0451493710 (hardcover)
Personal Name Kunzru, Hari, 1969- author.
Title Statement Red pill : a novel / Hari Kunzru.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Physical Description 283 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary, Etc. "After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"--a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life--and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place full of ghosts: across the lake the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that "no happiness was possible here on earth." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator of "Blue Lives," the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle, and that Anton is "red-pilling" his viewers--turning them towards an ugly, alt-rightish worldview--ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Authors Fiction
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Television cop shows Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Political culture Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Polarization (Social sciences) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Television programs Influence Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Television broadcasting Social aspects Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Television and politics Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Berlin (Germany) Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.

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