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The Savage Girl: A Novel
by Shakar, Alex
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0066209870
- ISBN 13
- 9780066209876
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About This Item
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. Author of LUMINARIUM which won the Los Angeles Time Book Award for Fiction, 2012. Also the author of CITY OF LOVE.
Synopsis
E-book exclusive special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains “Virtualism,” an essay on consumerism in a wired time – written especially by the author to help to encourage you to buy this e-book.Ursula Van Urden arrives in the volcano-shadowed metropolis of Middle City in the wake of her sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt. In an effort to understand the events leading up to her sister's breakdown, Ursula meets with Ivy's mysterious boyfriend Chas Lacouture, the owner of the powerful trendspotting firm Tomorrow, Ltd. Before she knows why or how, Ursula is working for Chas and is given the mandate to "find the future". Thus begins Ursula's odyessy into a world where she learns that at the core of every successful product lies a paradox, how surfaces can replace experience, and that schizophrenia is a metaphor for consumer culture. But as she delves deeper into the world of trendspotting (and as her institutionalized sister's fantasies grow stranger and more apocalyptic), Ursula struggles to understand why she is inexplicably drawn to a filthy, rodent-eating homeless girl living in nearby Bannister Park.
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- Bookseller
- Garys Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007278
- Title
- The Savage Girl: A Novel
- Author
- Shakar, Alex
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0066209870
- ISBN 13
- 9780066209876
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- A 83 3 COPIES 1 DATED 10/26/01
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