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Bubblegum : A Novel by Adam Levin (2020, Hardcover)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9780385544962
- Book Title
- Bubblegum : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.7 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Dystopian, Satire, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Humorous
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 40.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 784 Pages
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The astonishing new novel by the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award-winning author of The Instructions. Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a "flesh-and-bone robot" called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to, but must find a way to live in. At age thirty-eight, still living at home with his widowed father, Belt insulates himself from the awful and terrifying world outside by spending most of his time with books, his beloved Curio, and the voices in his head, which he isn't entirely sure are in his head. After Belt's father goes on a fishing excursion, a simple trip to the bank escalates into an epic saga that eventually forces Belt to confront the world he fears, as well as his estranged childhood friend Jonboat, the celebrity astronaut and billionaire. In Bubblegum, Adam Levin has crafted a profoundly hilarious, resonant, and monumental narrative about heartbreak, longing, art, and the search for belonging in an incompatible world. Bubblegum is a rare masterwork of provocative social (and self-) awareness and intimate emotional power.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385544960
ISBN-13
9780385544962
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038272788
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bubblegum : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, Satire, Literary, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Humorous
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
784 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
40.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3612.E92365b83
Reviews
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness - an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn't forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin's keen and ornery mind, reveling in the world with vast energy, shows us new ways of loving it." George Saunders , author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo "Adam Levin's brilliant, inventive, fully imagined alternative world gives us insight and clarity about the actual world we live in. We are implicated, warned, but what a hilarious ride. Bubblegum is a wild, ambitious, and original novel. Levin is a wonder." Dana Spiotta , author of Eat the Document "Tantalizing." The Boston Globe "Funny. . .moving. . .Levin creates a fascinating world with a wild and often touching coming-of-age story at its center." Publishers Weekly "Levin is the new Mailer . Think The Naked and The Dead , remove World War II, insert the war we are in now; up the introspection, lower the Nobel posturing ( Bubblegum !) and the pontificating of the self, keep the outsized ambition, make the damned book even larger. One wonders how the Mailer vacuum went empty this long. This is ambition and large-statement talent. The precision of the errancy is thrilling. This son of a bitch is perfect." Padgett Powell , author of You & Me "Punk's not dead. . . Bubblegum is crazy, erudite, and disturbing, a catalog of eccentricities and ferocious humor. . .Levin is one of those writers who keeps alive your faith in literature, in what books can do that Twitter, Instagram, and Netflix can't. He arouses hope for the future of the novel." Les Inrocks (France) "With Bubblegum , Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism, fetishization, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome." Catherine Lacey , author of Certain American States , The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing "Bubblegum is startling. Ingenious in its form and meaning-making. Levin gives you everything. A hilarious and serious meditation on what we might become. To paraphrase one of its characters, the novel makes me feel understood." Salvador Plascencia , author of The People of Paper "Eccentric, inventive, bountiful, Rabelaisian." Libération (France) "A book may be said to be a kind of fist, and the readers of such a fist-book as Bubblegum can surely not predict or prepare for the ecstatic bewilderment of the encounter, particularly when they are greeted in the depths of it by long-form theoretical analysis of their plight." Jesse Ball , author of Census, "Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness - an irrepressible and insanely entertaining examination of our obsessive culture that doesn't forget to be fond of that which it is satirizing. Levin's keen and ornery mind, reveling in the world with vast energy, shows us new ways of loving it." George Saunders , author of the Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo "Levin is the new Mailer . Think The Naked and The Dead , remove World War II, insert the war we are in now; up the introspection, lower the Nobel posturing ( Bubblegum !) and the pontificating of the self, keep the outsized ambition, make the damned book even larger. One wonders how the Mailer vacuum went empty this long. This is ambition and large-statement talent. The precision of the errancy is thrilling. This son of a bitch is perfect." Padgett Powell , author of You & Me "With Bubblegum , Adam Levin has created a cubist painting about consumerism, fetishization, and the increasingly blurred line between life and advertisement in a hyper-materialist, post-IRL society. Levin masterfully creates a world without the internet to examine the impact and insanity it has sewn into the American project, and he does so while gleefully skewering our unraveling vernacular. A freaky marvel of a tome." Catherine Lacey , author of Certain American States , The Answers and Nobody is Ever Missing "Bubblegum is startling. Ingenious in its form and meaning-making. Levin gives you everything. A hilarious and serious meditation on what we might become. To paraphrase one of its characters, the novel makes me feel understood." Salvador Plascencia , author of The People of Paper "A book may be said to be a kind of fist, and the readers of such a fist-book as Bubblegum can surely not predict or prepare for the ecstatic bewilderment of the encounter, particularly when they are greeted in the depths of it by long-form theoretical analysis of their plight." Jesse Ball , author of Census
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-001907
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23
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