| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
[An] accomplished new novel that confirms the promise of Nunn's first book, Tapping the Source ... Nunn writes with a keen portentousness about the warped people in this wasteland, creating what might be described as a western gothic. His examination of cultish thought is respectful, intriguing, and funny, in a narrative that never loses dramatic momentum. -- Publishers Weekly Lay preacher Obadiah Wheeler is responsible for conducting a group of missionaries into "unassigned territory," a stretch of Nevada wilderness open to evangelistic efforts. Obadiah's faith is shaky at best and no match for the tempting charms of the co-proprietor of a desert museum, raven-haired beauty Delandra Hummer. Together the two set off into the vast emptiness of the Mojave in search of a buyer for the museum's prize exhibit, an extraterrestrial relic. Their hilarious road trip -- punctuated by encounters with UFO cults, wild rednecks, and hippie burnouts -- throbs with violence and madness as well as the possibility of spiritual enlightenment. This "desert noir" by National Book Award nominee Kem Nunn was recognized as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; the author has also written for and produced numerous TV projects, among them John from Cincinnati, Deadwood, and Sons of Anarchy. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
FICTION / Noir.
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Cults -- Fiction.
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California -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nunn, Kem. Unassigned territory. Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017. 9780486815701 (DLC)2016055142 |
| Standard No. |
9780486821283 |
| ISBN |
9780486821283 (e-pub) |
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