The Zero
by Walter, Jess
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine minus/Fine
- Seller
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
First edition 1st printing, Fine minus book with slight crimps at spine ends in a Fine jacket. An unread copy signed by Walter on the title page; nominated for the National Book Award. Novel focus is on aftermath of 9-11 attacks.
Synopsis
Can a man ever realize that he's been the villain of his own story?The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.From its opening pages—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as "The Boss," and peopled by anguished policemen, gawking celebrities, and pink real estate divas inventing new uses for tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell—or send him circling back to himself—is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel.From a young novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of how our trials become our transgressions, of how we forgive ourselves and whether or not we should.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Squid Ink Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-858202863
- Title
- The Zero
- Author
- Walter, Jess
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine minus
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing signed by Walter
- Publisher
- Reagan
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Fiction, 9-11 terrorist attacks
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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