Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Bubblegum by Adam Levin

"Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness." --George Saunders 

"Levin's brains may have earned him a cult...but here he swells to a democratic reach. Give him a try sometime. His gate's wide open." --Garth Risk Hallberg, The New York Times Book Review

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.

Adam Levin is a consumer advocate who has worked in the fields of personal finance, privacy, real estate, and government service for over thirty years. Levin, a former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, is the Chairman and founder of Identity Theft 911, as well as the Chairman and co-founder of Credit.com, where he also works as a spokesperson. He writes a weekly piece for Huffington Post and ABCNews.com about personal finance, credit, identity management, fraud, and privacy. He has been on numerous television shows, including Fox News, Fox Business News, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, CBS Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and numerous radio stations across the country. With his wife and children, he lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780525566489
ISBN 10	0525566481
Title	Bubblegum
Author	Adam Levin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-03-16
Number of pages	784
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.