334: A Novel

334: A Novel

by Thomas M. Disch
334: A Novel

334: A Novel

by Thomas M. Disch

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Overview

If Charles Dickens has written speculative fiction, he might have created a novel as intricate, passionate, and lacerating as Thomas M. Disch's visionary portrait of the underbelly of 21st-century New York City. The residents of the public housing project at 334 East 11th Street live in a world of rationed babied and sanctioned drug addiction. Real food is displayed in museums and hospital attendants moonlight as body-snatchers.

Nimbly hopscotching backward and forward in time, Disch charts the shifting relationships between this world's inheritors: an aging matriarch who falls in love with her young social worker; a widow seeking comfort from the spirit of her dead husband; a privileged preteen choreographing the perfectly gratuitous murder. Poisonously funny, piercingly authentic, 344 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780375705441
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/27/1999
Edition description: First Vintage Books Edition
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 882,599
Product dimensions: 5.14(w) x 7.93(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Thomas M. Disch is the author of many novels, including such classic works of science fiction as Camp Concentration and 334. He lives in Manhattan and in Sullivan County, New York.
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