{"product_id":"martha-book-walker-zupp-9781940233659","title":"Martha","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year is 2089. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an independent Scotland, Constable Harmon Chikenyyt is thrown into a world of drug-dealers and pimps. Their goal is simple: to use and sell as much of the hallucinogenic cannabinoid D.E.R.P. as possible. Suddenly, civil war breaks out in Belgium. The British Parliament decides to intervene with a band of Northern Irish mercenaries. As the civil war escalates, it becomes clear to Tara Blimmen that everything is connected; that each crime committed, whether in Scotland, the halls of Westminster, or Belgium, is a symptom of something far deadlier.In Antarctica, at a research station funded by the bank I.T.C.B. Holdings plc, pharmacologist Norvin Tubani a has been tasked with understanding Martha-if that's even possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZupp's bleak vision of the future is, unfortunately, all too convincing, and his darkly comic prose offers perhaps the best means of facing it as a possibility. This is a book for those who love the work of Kurt Vonnegut, early Thomas Pynchon, and David Foster Wallace.- Charlie Gere, Lancaster University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA freewheelingly scabrous, energetic and darkly funny tale, pinpricked with pathos and sympathy, all concealing a strange sort of seriousness. Probably the strangest and most scatologically unbridled book you'll read this year, and that's a recommendation.- George Green, author of \u003ci\u003eHound\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHawk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFear and Loathing in Las Vegas meets Dr. Strangelove; Zupp is to subversive fictional literature as Salvador Dali is to art in this future-real dissection of a world with characters as secular and loveless as our own. Martha is written with intelligence, wit, and a delightful sprinkling of absurdity for good measure.- K.T. Browne, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Strangled Hubris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49580748538129,"sku":"GOR010588761","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50167344857361,"sku":"GOR010863716","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1940233658.jpg?v=1750836175","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/martha-book-walker-zupp-9781940233659","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}