| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 13 min.)) : digital |
| Performer |
Read by Adam Verner. |
| Summary |
In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings, Subprimes. Their bad credit ratings make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they've walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Fugitives who must keep moving to avoid arrest, they wander the globally warmed American wasteland. Desperate for work and food, a Subprime family has been forced to migrate east. They are soon joined in their odyssey by a writer and his family - slightly better off, yet falling fast. Eventually, they discover a small settlement of Subprimes who have begun an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb. Soon, though, the little stability they have is threatened when their land is targeted by job creators for shale oil extraction. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Social classes -- United States -- Fiction.
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Poor -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Dystopias.
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| Subject |
Uncollectible accounts -- Fiction.
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Equality -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Verner, Adam, narrator.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781633799592 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
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163379959X (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11351697 |
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