midnight's simulacra by Nick Black
The twenty-first century's primary path of socioeconomic mobility is engineering; scientists took over from the priests no later than the twentieth. America's most ambitious students these days compete for placement in STEM programs, as do some of her wiliest rogues.Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas. Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other to attain what never was. Together at an elite Institute of Technology they train as engineers. Together in the dark they study forbidden teachings. By graduation, they're formidably competent, audacious to a fault, and wholly ungovernable.midnight's simulacra is a hysterical, scientifically rigorous, and fastpaced thriller, a modern picaresque, a portrait of the autist as a young man, and unlike any other novel you've read.
Nick Black is professor of health services research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (University of London). He is one of the leading academics in the UK on health services, having published several books and over 200 articles in medical journals. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, a leading international journal, and edited a series of 20 books on understanding public health. He advises the Department of Health on quality assessment and chairs the National Advisory Group for Clinical Audit & Enquiries. Apart from health care policy, his interests include history, architecture, cooking, and Arsenal. He is married and lives in north London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9798989523610 |
| Title | midnight's simulacra |
| Author | Nick Black |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gold & Appel Publishing |
| Year published | 2024-01-12 |
| Number of pages | 484 |
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