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Author Kunzru, Hari, 1969- author.

Title Red pill : a novel / Hari Kunzru.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F KUNZRU, H.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION KUNZRU    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  F KUNZRU HARI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction  F KUNZRU    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F KUNZRU, H.    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  FIC KUNZRU    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F KUNZRU, HARI    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  F KUNZRU    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F KUNZRU HARI    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-KUNZRU    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 283 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"--a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life--and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place full of ghosts: across the lake the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that "no happiness was possible here on earth." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator of "Blue Lives," the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle, and that Anton is "red-pilling" his viewers--turning them towards an ugly, alt-rightish worldview--ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Authors -- Fiction.
Television cop shows -- Fiction.
Political culture -- Fiction.
Polarization (Social sciences) -- Fiction.
Television programs -- Influence -- Fiction.
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Television and politics -- Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
ISBN 9780451493712 (hardcover)
0451493710 (hardcover)
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