LEADER 00000cam a2200445 i 4500 001 on1029064789 003 OCoLC 005 20190212101328.0 008 180315s2019 nyua 000 1 eng 010 2018009753 019 1046067487 020 9780525435884|q(softcover) 020 0525435883|q(softcover) 035 (OCoLC)1029064789|z(OCoLC)1046067487 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCQ|dYDX|dBDX|dORX|dIUO|dOCLCO|dDCH |dUAP|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dCGP 042 pcc 049 CKEA 050 00 PS3613.E48223|bS26 2018 082 00 813/.6|223 100 1 Mendelsund, Peter,|eauthor. 245 10 Same same /|cPeter Mendelsund. 250 A Vintage books original edition. 264 1 New York :|bVintage Books,|c2019. 300 483 pages :|billustrations ;|c21 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 520 The fiction debut from the LA Times bestselling author of What We See When We Read-- a novel of ideas set in a mysterious institute in the desert. In the shifting desert sands on the outskirts of a Middle Eastern city sits a mysterious Institute, where Fellows in every field of knowledge and endeavor under the (inhospitably hot) sun work on Projects and give Discourses(TM) and dedicate themselves to copying, cloning, replicating, and reproducing a world to which none of them seem to have any intention of returning. Same Same is Percy Frobisher's account of his tenure as a Fellow at the Institute, and his attempt to realize--or is it simulate?--his own audacious Project. Imagining a world in which simulacra have as much value as the real--so much so that any distinction between the two vanishes, and even language seeks to reproduce meaning through ever more degraded copies of itself--Peter Mendelsund has crafted a deeply unsettling novel about what it means to exist, and to create . . . and a future that may not be far off. 650 0 Copying|vFiction. 650 0 Creative ability|vFiction. 650 0 Associations, institutions, etc|vFiction. 650 0 Dystopias|vFiction. 650 7 Dystopias.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00900372 655 7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 Dystopian fiction.|2lcgft 994 C0|bCKE
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