Barthelme launches two characters from his acclaimed novel "The Brothers" on a wild and haunting road trip into the interactive heart of contemporary American culture. Net novitiate Jen and her channel-surfing boyfriend, Del, decide they need step out of cyberspace and take a look at the real world--from an online encounter with a psychopath to an epiphany in the Arizona desert.
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Barthelme launches two characters from his acclaimed novel "The Brothers" on a wild and haunting road trip into the interactive heart of contemporary American culture. Net novitiate Jen and her channel-surfing boyfriend, Del, decide they need step out of cyberspace and take a look at the real world--from an online encounter with a psychopath to an epiphany in the Arizona desert.
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**STOCK PHOTOS AND CATALOG INFO MAY VARY FROM ACTUAL BOOK, PLEASE REFER TO SELLER PHOTOS AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FOR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION. THE SELLER PHOTO SHOWS THE EXACT COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE** This is a used book in VERY GOOD condition, meaning it has very minor or unnoticeable defects. Hardcover edition. Includes original dust jacket.
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**STOCK PHOTOS AND CATALOG INFO MAY VARY FROM ACTUAL BOOK, PLEASE REFER TO SELLER PHOTOS AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FOR MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION. THE SELLER PHOTO SHOWS THE EXACT COPY YOU WILL RECEIVE** This is a used book in GOOD condition. May have minor defects such as wearing to outside cover, a name written on inside cover, or a few notations throughout. Hardcover edition. Includes original dust jacket.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Mylar jacket cover. Clean and unmarked, tight & solid, square with sharp corners. Jen, Del, Jen's father Mike, and her friend Penny head out to Los Angeles to do something about the LA riots, people getting bashed, the fires. They are fired up about this. They journey from Biloxi, Mississippi to Dallas to tourist sites in New Mexico and Arizona. When Jen sets up a scourge of email spamming to attract interest in their 'mission', she hears from a strange guy, Dobson, who believes anarchy is the only game in town. Meanwhile Jen and Del begin to think maybe the spectacular world around them is really more important. Dobson causes trouble--he has an agenda and it is not good. 243 pages. 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Viking Press/Penguin Grp, New York, 1995.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. First edition. Very good in fine dustwrapper. Book very clean copy corners slightly flared, dustwrapper excellent condition. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Fine. No Jacket. The advance reading copy of this "road novel set partly in cyberspace." Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
