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001    on1155693813 
003    OCoLC 
005    20210210112933.0 
008    200618s2021    nyu           000 1 eng   
010      2020027975 
020    9780593189580|q(hardcover) 
020    0593189582|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1155693813 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dMJ8|dOCLCO|dJTH|dQS3|dOCLCO 
042    pcc 
049    CKEA 
050 00 PS3612.O27|bN6 2021 
082 00 813/.6|223 
100 1  Lockwood, Patricia,|eauthor. 
245 10 No one is talking about this :|ba novel /|cPatricia 
       Lockwood. 
264  1 New York :|bRiverhead Books,|c2021. 
300    210 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Social media|vFiction. 
655  7 Novels.|2lcgft 
914    MID.b26652353 
914    FARM276935 
994    C0|bCKE