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These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future. In "The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the United States and Canada. But the NEA has plans for the wall as well, turning it into the world's largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for "A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not as different as one might imagine, despite the occasional plague of biker-gang locusts. Between addiction and art is "Ringtime," where a criminal is trapped in a recursive compulsion to visit other people's memories while he is forced to record his own for an eager audience. A Somali schoolgirl living in post-WWIII Minneapolis goes on a bloody crusade to rid her town of a familiar predator, one who might just be a monster, in "White Man." Vivid, starkly imagined, and strikingly articulate, this disquieting collection is a journey that skillfully straddles the line between playful absurdity and pointed irony.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Wall of America
• Author: Thomas M. Disch
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245
• EAN: 9781892391827
• ISBN: 1892391821
• ID: 05014481
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications
• Weight: 271 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 141 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2008

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