Cargando…
Orphans /
"With Orphans, Ben Tanzer continues his ongoing literary survey of the 21st Century male psyche, yet does so with a newfound twist, contemporary themes set in a world that is anything but. In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers are sent off to sell property on Mars to those who can...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
DeKalb, Il. :
Switchgrass Books/NIU Press,
2013.
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a22000004a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | musev2_26460 | ||
| 003 | MdBmJHUP | ||
| 005 | 20230905042817.0 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr||||||||nn|n | ||
| 008 | 130617s2013 ilu o 00 0 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781501757372 | ||
| 020 | |z 9781609090999 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780875806952 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)868223049 | ||
| 040 | |a MdBmJHUP |c MdBmJHUP | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Tanzer, Ben. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Orphans / |c Ben Tanzer. |
| 264 | 1 | |a DeKalb, Il. : |b Switchgrass Books/NIU Press, |c 2013. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2014 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2013. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (170 pages). | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- For Mark Brand, Adam Lawrence, and Joseph Peterson -- Acknowledgments | |
| 520 | |a "With Orphans, Ben Tanzer continues his ongoing literary survey of the 21st Century male psyche, yet does so with a newfound twist, contemporary themes set in a world that is anything but. In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers are sent off to sell property on Mars to those who can afford to leave, leaving what's left to those who have little choice but to make do with what's left behind: burnt out neighborhoods, black helicopters policing the streets, flash mobs, the unemployed in their scruffy suits, robots taking the few jobs that remain, and clones who replace those workers who do find work so that a modicum of family stability can be maintained. It is a story about the impact of work on family. How work warps our best intentions. And how everything we think we know about ourselves looks different during a recession. This idea is writ large in the world of Orphans, where recession is all we know, work is only available to the lucky few, and this lucky few not only need to fear being replaced on the job, but in their homes and beds. It is also a story about drugs, surfing, punk music, lost youth, parenting, sex, pop culture as vernacular, and a conscious intersection of Death of a Salesman or Glengarry Glen Ross with the Martian Chronicles. Looking to the genre of science fiction has allowed Tanzer to produce something new and fresh, expanding both his literary horizons, and the potential market for his work. Tanzer also looks to the story of Bartleby the Scrivener with Orphans, and the question of what are we allowed as workers, and expected to be, or do, when work is fraught with desperation. Ultimately, Orphans is intended to be a contemporary story about manhood and what it means in today's world, told from the perspective of work and family, and how any of us manage the parameters that family and work produce; but it's a story told in a futuristic world, where our greatest fears are in fact already realized, because there isn't enough of anything, and we are all too easily replaced"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Amerikanisches Englisch |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Roman |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Orphans. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01048433 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Fantasy fiction. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00920710 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a FICTION |x Fantasy |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Orphans |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fantasy fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Dystopian fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Bildungsromans. |2 gsafd | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Dystopias. |2 gsafd | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fiction. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Dystopian fiction. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01921637 | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Bildungsromans. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Dystopian fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/26460/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction Supplement | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete Supplement | ||