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Lexicon - Hardcover By Max Barry - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 1594205388
- Book Title
- Lexicon : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Thrillers / General, Romance / Suspense
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 23.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics-they are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to manipulate minds, wielding words as weapons. The very best graduate as "poets," and enter a nameless organization of unknown purpose. Whip-smart runaway Emily Ruff is making a living from three-card Monte on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organization's recruiters. Drawn in to their strage world, which is populated by people named Bront and Eliot, she learns their key rule: That every person can be classified by personality type, his mind segmented and ultimately unlocked by the skilful application of words. For this reason, she must never allow another person to truly know her, lest she herself be coerced. Adapting quickly, Emily becomes the school's most talented prodigy, until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love. Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Parke is brutally ambushed by two men in an airport bathroom. They claim he is the key to a secret war he knows nothing about, that he is an "outlier," immune to segmentation. Attempting to stay one step ahead of the organization and its mind-bending poets, Wil and his captors seek salvation in the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, which, if ancient stories are true, sits above an ancient glyph of frightening power. A brilliant thriller that traverses very modern questions of privacy, identity, and the rising obsession of data-collection, connecting them to centuries-old ideas about the power of language and coercion, Lexicon is Max Barry's most ambitious and spellbinding novel yet.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594205388
ISBN-13
9781594205385
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150588290
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lexicon : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Thrillers / General, Romance / Suspense
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.A7424l49 2013
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
Advance Praise for Lexicon : " About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller : searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash. " -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." -Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats, "A dark, dystopic grabber in which words are treated as weapons, and the villainous types have literary figures' names. Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller." - Time Magazine "[A] speedy, clever, dialogue-rich thriller." -Salon "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls "Best thing I've read in a long, long time." - Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "A scary and satisfying blend of thriller, dystopia, and horror." - Library Journal "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus (starred) "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly, Advance Praise for Lexicon : "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." -Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." -Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible, "Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller." - Time Magazine "[A] speedy, clever, dialogue-rich thriller." -Salon "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls "Best thing I've read in a long, long time." - Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "A scary and satisfying blend of thriller, dystopia, and horror." - Library Journal "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly, Advance Praise for Lexicon : "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." -Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." -Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible, "A dark, dystopic grabber in which words are treated as weapons, and the villainous types have literary figures' names. Plath, Yeats, Eliot and Woolf all figure in this ambitious, linguistics-minded work of futurism." -Janet Maslin, New York Times "Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller." - Time Magazine "Imagine blending the works of Neal Stephenson with Michael Chabon and the end result would come close to the world envisioned by Barry. The words brilliant and exemplary aren't adequate enough to convey the amazing craft of Lexicon ." -Associated Press "It's a pitch-perfect thriller, a jetpack of a plot that rocketed me from page one to page 400 in a single afternoon, and it kept me guessing right up to the end. Imagine Dan Brown written by someone a lot smarter and better at characterization and at hand-waving the places where the science shades into science fiction, and you've got something like Lexicon ." - Cory Doctorow, Boingboing.net "[A] speedy, clever, dialogue-rich thriller." -Salon "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls "Best thing I've read in a long, long time." - Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "A scary and satisfying blend of thriller, dystopia, and horror." - Library Journal "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus (starred) "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly, "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls "Best thing I've read in a long, long time." - Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly, "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls, "Imagine, if you will, a secret group of people called Poets who have the power to control others simply by speaking to them. Barry has, and the result is an extraordinarily fast, funny, cerebral thriller." - Time "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." - Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King " Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." - Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats "Dazzling and spectacularly inventive. A novel that jams itself sideways into your brain and stays there." - Mike Carey, author of The Devil You Know "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." - Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "Insanely good. Dark and twisted and sweet and humane all at once." -Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City and The Shining Girls "Best thing I've read in a long, long time." - Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool "An absolutely first-rate, suspenseful thriller with convincing characters who invite readers' empathy and keep them turning pages until the satisfying conclusion." -Booklist (starred) "A scary and satisfying blend of thriller, dystopia, and horror." - Library Journal "An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story." -Kirkus "[An] ambitious satirical thriller… amuses as much as it shocks." -Publishers Weekly, Advance Praise for Lexicon "I don't know how you could craft a better weekend read than this novel of international intrigue and weaponized Chomskian linguistics. It's the perfect mix of philosophical play and shotgun-inflected chase scenes. Like someone let Grant Morrison loose on the Bourne identity franchise." -Austin Grossman, author of Soon I Will be Invincible "About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash." -Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King "Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor." -Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats
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2013
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2012-046980
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
23
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