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001			027995
005			20231009192528.0
008			200910s20202020nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780525657217 (hardcover)
050	0	0	_aPS3560.E474 _bR47 2020
082	0		_aFIC JEN _2
100	1		_aJen, Gish
245	1	4	_aThe resisters : _ba novel _c/ Gish Jen.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_a301 pages _c; 22 cm
520			_aAn audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living in plastic houses that talk and multi-colored houseboats at the water's edge. Neither group is happy. The story: A Surplus family--he was once a professor, she is still a lawyer--has a girl child, Gwen, who's born with a golden arm. By two she can throw her toy animals straight to the same spot every time. When AutoAmerica and ChinRussia decide to revive the Olympics, suddenly Gwen, who's been playing in the Resisters League her parents have organized, is in great demand. Soon she's at angelfair university, Net U, falling in love with her baseball coach and facing questions of "crossing over," while her mother and her "group" are bringing charges before the botjudge about Surplus rights.
546			_aEnglish
655			_aDomestic fiction
655		7	_aScience fiction
655		7	_aDystopias
942			_cMO
999			_c240783 _d240783