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America city / Chris Beckett.
Van Pelt Library PR6102.E25 A44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckett, Chris, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- United States--Fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Dystopias.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 357 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Corvus, 2017.
- Summary:
- America, 100 years on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country in order to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation. When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right hand woman, doing battle on the wisperstream, where stories are everything and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together - or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786491527
- 1786491524
- OCLC:
- 1014198246
- Publisher Number:
- 99977209776
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