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William Gibson · 2003
A contemporary science fiction novel following Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" and marketing sensitive, as she navigates global consumer culture and becomes obsessed with mysterious online footage. Gibson's prose captures the disorientation of jet lag and digital-age alienation with precise, observational detail.
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What this book knows
Branded surfaces and collective obsession become the medium through which grief, identity, and paranoia move in a networked world.
grief
To have someone disappear in Manhattan on the morning of September 11 is proving to be an ongoing nightmare of its own peculiar sort.
PRWG-RC-115I'm reading about my father. Did they find him? No. She drinks, splutters, starts to cry, stops herself.
PRWG-RC-211self-and-identity
National icons are always neutral for her, with the exception of Nazi Germany's — Hitler had understood the power of branding all too well.
PRWG-RC-159The terrible eyes of the Michelin Man fix her with a truly dire regard — her phobic self overriding all rational control.
PRWG-RC-190She imagines shadowy figures in another room, staring at this page of F:F:F, waiting for Cayce to open a post.
PRWG-RC-136trauma-and-survival
She's on her back and can't move her arms. There are two restraining bands of gray webbing. This seems not a good thing.
PRWG-RC-1916 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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