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334 by Thomas M Disch

If Charles Dickens had 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 babies 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, 334 is a masterpiece of social realism disguised as science fiction.

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ISBN 13 9780375705441
ISBN 10 0375705449
Title 334
Author Thomas M Disch
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1999-04-27
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.