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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Guild, Scott.     Subjects     Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.     Robots -- Fiction.     Psychic trauma -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Virtual reality -- Fiction.     Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Guild, Scott.       by title:      Plastic / Scott Guil...       by call number:      FICTION GUI     Search the Web     Guild, Scott.     Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.     Robots -- Fiction.     Psychic trauma -- Fiction.     Family secrets -- Fiction.     Virtual reality -- Fiction.     Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Plastic / Scott Guild. by Guild, Scott. Pantheon Books, 2024. Call #: FICTION GUI Subjects Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.   Robots -- Fiction.   Psychic trauma -- Fiction.   Family secrets -- Fiction.   Virtual reality -- Fiction.   Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593316764 (hc.) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  293 p. ; 22 cm. Notes:  "A novel"--Cover. Summary:  "Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then conveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full, physical immersion in a virtual world, a refuge from real life's nuclear wars, oppressive governmental monitoring, and omnipresent eco-terrorist insurgency. If you cut her, she will not bleed - but she and her fellow figurines can still be cracked or blown apart by gunfire or bombs, or crumble away from nuclear fallout. Erin, who's lost her father, sister, and the love of her life, certainly knows plenty about death. An attack at her place of work brings Erin another too-intimate experience, but it also brings her Jacob: a blind figurine whom she comforts in the aftermath, and with whom she feels an almost instant connection. For the first time in years, Erin begins to experience hope - hope that until now she's only gleaned from watching her favorite TV show, the surrealist retro sitcom "Nuclear Family." Exploring the wild wonders of the virtual reality landscape together, it seems that possibly, slowly, Erin and Jacob may have a chance at healing from their trauma. But then secrets from Erin's family's past begin to invade her carefully constructed reality, and cracks in the facade she's constructed around her life threaten to reveal everything vulnerable beneath. Both a crypto-comedic dystopian fantasy and a deadly serious dissection of our own farcical pre-apocalypse."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Dystopian fiction. Literary fiction Science fiction. First novel Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION GUI Adult books Trace   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION GUI Adult books Checked out Jul 13, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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