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Author Lockwood, Patricia, author.

Title No one is talking about this : a novel / Patricia Lockwood.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F LOCKWOOD, P.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  FICTION LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  FICTION LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  FIC LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  F LOC    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F LOCKWOOD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FIC LOCK    Check Shelf

Description 210 pages ; 22 cm
Summary "From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Social media -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Novels.
ISBN 9780593189580 (hardcover)
0593189582 (hardcover)
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