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    Sulphuric acid / Amélie Nothomb ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
    by Nothomb, Amélie.
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    Faber and Faber, 2008, c2007.
    Call #:FICTION NOT
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  • Reality television programs -- Fiction.
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  • Celebrities -- Fiction.
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  • Concentration camps -- Fiction.
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  • ISBN: 
    9780571234936 (trade pbk.)
    0571234933 (trade pbk.)
    Uniform title: 
    Acide sulfurique. English English
    Alternate title: 
    Acide sulfurique.
    Edition: 
    Paperback ed.
    Description: 
    127 p. ; 20 cm.
    Notes: 
    "First published in the UK in 2007 by Faber and Faber Limited."--T.p. verso.
    Original French title: Acide sulfurique.
    Summary: 
    "Sometime in the future, audiences have tired of traditional reality TV shows. One channel decides to try something new and Concentration - the reality TV death camp - is born. Participants for the show are rounded up and loaded onto cattle trucks, among them the beautiful woman Pannonique. When Pannonique is delivered to the death camp and the cameras are turned on, she unknowingly becomes a media star, but she soon understands that her situation is all too real...Sulphuric Acid is a blackly funny, shocking and provocative satire on our modern obsession with reality TV and celebrity."--Back cover.
    Genre: 
    French fiction -- Translations into English.
    Satire.
    Black humor (Literature)
    Futuristic fiction.
    Dystopian fiction.
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