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"Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.
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Le Grossium, Marcel Duhamel, Stanley G. Crawford
- Language
- Released
- 1969
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Le Grossium
- Language
- French
- Authors
- Marcel Duhamel, Stanley G. Crawford
- Publisher
- Gallimard
- Released
- 1969
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 2070482758
- ISBN13
- 9782070482757
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Murders, Culture, America, Money, Drugs, Struggle for Power, Suicide, Wealth, Irony, Greed, Sarcasm, Smuggling
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- "Meet Gascoyne, a new breed of hero, a man who spends whole weeks in his car, eats there, sleeps there, and conducts his business - wielding power, pinching pennies, and fostering corruption - by mobile phone as he somehow manages to drive through bumper-to-bumper traffic at fifty miles an hour. But he's found a new preoccupation, hunting down the killer - last seen slithering away from the crime scene in a tree-sloth costume - of his business associate and finding out how the southern California megalopolis has suddenly slipped out of his grasp." A tour de force blending of genres - Alfred Hitchcock, jungle-war novels, science fiction, mad doctor movies, Westerns, James Bond, 18th-century mock epics, Greek tragedy and hardboiled detective stories - first published in 1966, Gascoyne is a hilarious look into a future that looks remarkably like the present.