The Heap: A Novel by Sean Adams
- The Heap: A Novel
- Sean Adams
- Page: 320
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- ISBN: 9780062957733
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel.” —Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters Blending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before - and after - its demise. Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building’s mountainous remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land. Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Verticalés, who is alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive rubble. For months, Orville has lived in a sea of campers that surrounds the Heap, working tirelessly to free Bernard—the only known survivor of the imploded city—whom he speaks to every evening, calling into his radio show. The brothers’ conversations are a ratings bonanza, and the station’s parent company, Sundial Media, wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut off, but strangely, he continues to hear his own voice over the airwaves, casually shilling products as “he” converses with Bernard. What follows is an imaginative and darkly hilarious story of conspiracy, revenge, and the strange life and death of Los Verticalés that both captures the wonderful weirdness of community and the bonds that tie us together.
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The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his Heap House (Iremonger, #1) by Edward Carey - Goodreads
Heap House is Edward Carey's first foray into young adult fiction. The author of two of the most original adult novels in recent years—Observatory Mansions and Bookmark | Book Marks
The Heap by Sean Adams has an overall rating of Positive based on 7 book reviews. The Heap: A Novel: Adams, Sean: 9780062957733: Amazon
The Heap is a bad J.G. Ballard pastiche, with a few bare scintillas of charm. The story is set in the ruins of Los Verticales, an experimental tower city somewhere in the high desert which collapsed. Now the rubble is picked over by diggers, scavenging valuable items from the rubble. The Heap – HarperCollins - HarperCollins Publishers
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Featured on recommended reading lists by the New York Times • New York Post • Library Journal • Thrillist The Heap - Bookmark All | Book Marks
[An] engrossing debut novel Adams' imaginative scope is staggering No story about collapsed skyscrapers in the 21st century can avoid the ghost of Sept. The Heap: Albarelli, Jr., HP - Amazon.com
.I just didn't like this book in terms of fiction. The whole structure, the simon magus stuff, the Loudon background, just seemed silly and pointless to me. And I