Lexicon - 9780143125426
Un libro in lingua di Max Barry edito da Penguin Group USA, 2014
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?The words brilliant and exemplary aren’t adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of Lexicon.” ?The Associated Press
Few books are greeted with rave reviews everywhere from Time magazine and Salon to Boingboing and io9. Yet, Max Barry’s Lexicon is that rare thing: a thriller as high-octane as they come, driven by a brilliant and original plot that connects very modern questions of privacy and data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language.
At an exclusive training school at an undisclosed location outside Washington, D.C., students are taught to control minds, to wield words as weapons. The very best graduate as ?poets” and enter a nameless organization of unknown purpose. Recruited off the street, whip-smart Emily Ruff quickly learns the one key rule: never allow another person to truly know you. Emily becomes the school’s most talented prodigy, until she makes the catastrophic mistake of falling in love.
Few books are greeted with rave reviews everywhere from Time magazine and Salon to Boingboing and io9. Yet, Max Barry’s Lexicon is that rare thing: a thriller as high-octane as they come, driven by a brilliant and original plot that connects very modern questions of privacy and data collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of language.
At an exclusive training school at an undisclosed location outside Washington, D.C., students are taught to control minds, to wield words as weapons. The very best graduate as ?poets” and enter a nameless organization of unknown purpose. Recruited off the street, whip-smart Emily Ruff quickly learns the one key rule: never allow another person to truly know you. Emily becomes the school’s most talented prodigy, until she makes the catastrophic mistake of falling in love.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Lexicon
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Max Barry
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Aprile '14
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 390
- Dimensioni mm: 214 x 139 x 0
- EAN-13: 9780143125426