FKA USA
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ISBN13=9781250108890
Language_English
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Product details
- ISBN 9781250108890
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 712g
- Dimensions: 164 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2019
- Publisher: Flatiron Books
- Publication City/Country: New York, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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In Reed King’s wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United States has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters and the catastrophic policies of its final president. It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday. But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight he is tapped by the President for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world depends upon it. The problem is - Truckee’s not sure it’s worth it. Joined on the road by an android who wants to be human and a former convict lobotomised in Texas, Truckee will navigate an environmentally depleted and lawless continent with devastating - and hilarious - parallels to our own, dodging body pickers and Elvis-worshippers and logo girls, body subbers, and VR addicts. Elvis-willing, he may even lose his virginity. FKA USA is the epic novel we’ve all been waiting for about the American end of times, with its unavoidable sense of being on the wrong end of the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humour, and satire with the power to make us cry, despair, and laugh out loud all at once. It is a tour de force unlike anything else you will read this year.
Reed King is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling author and TV writer.
