The Resource NK3, Michael Tolkin
NK3, Michael Tolkin
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The item NK3, Michael Tolkin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- "The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the Fence, ruled over by the new aristocracy, the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to keep control over the mindless and nameless Drifters, Shamblers, and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed. The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. They warn him of trouble to come, but who is the person to watch: the elusive Eckmann, holed up with the last functioning plane at LAX; Shannon Squier, the chisel-wielding pop superstar from the pre-NK3 world, pulled from the shambling masses; a treacherous member of Chief's inner circle; or Hopper, the uncommon Drifter compelled by an inner voice to search for a wife whose name and face he doesn't know? Each threatens to upset the delicate power balance in this fragile world. In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets, and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802125439
- Label
- NK3
- Title
- NK3
- Statement of responsibility
- Michael Tolkin
- Title variation
- NK 3
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Life for the community inside the Fence, ruled over by the new aristocracy, the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to keep control over the mindless and nameless Drifters, Shamblers, and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed. The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. They warn him of trouble to come, but who is the person to watch: the elusive Eckmann, holed up with the last functioning plane at LAX; Shannon Squier, the chisel-wielding pop superstar from the pre-NK3 world, pulled from the shambling masses; a treacherous member of Chief's inner circle; or Hopper, the uncommon Drifter compelled by an inner voice to search for a wife whose name and face he doesn't know? Each threatens to upset the delicate power balance in this fragile world. In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets, and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.O4278
- LC item number
- N58 2017
- Literary form
- fiction
- Label
- NK3, Michael Tolkin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802125439
- Lccn
- 2016046210
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn964624629
- ucoclc964624629
- Label
- NK3, Michael Tolkin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802125439
- Lccn
- 2016046210
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn964624629
- ucoclc964624629
Library Locations
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Charles E. Young Research LibraryBorrow it280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1575, US34.0749691 -118.441466
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