The pickup artist / Terry Bisson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bisson, Terry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and state--Fiction.

Art and state.

Government investigators--Fiction.

Government investigators.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

240 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2001.

Summary:

From the award-winning author of Pirates of the Universe, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, comes The Pickup Artist -- a sharp, witty and subversive exploration of the future of art, culture, and society as a whole. In the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Fireman, who burns books in Fahrenheit 451, our hero is a pickup artist, a government agent who gathers creative works whose time has come and gone. You see, there's simply not enough room in the world for all the art, so anything past a certain age must be cataloged, archived in the records, and destroyed, paving the way for new art. It's a job that comes with risk, and the pay's lousy, but it covers the bills. And after all, this year's art is better than last year's, isn't it?

Notes:

"A Tor book"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0312874030

OCLC:

45324959