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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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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Science Fiction  SFF MENDELSUND PETER    Check Shelf