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Marten Eugene - Layman's Report - Paperback
Marten Eugene - Layman's Report - Paperback
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Description: He comes to fix your photocopier but really Fred's an inventor. At night he goes to work. He has goals ambitions and when offered the task of building a better electric chair he jumps at the chance. People have to die - he believes in the occasional necessity of evil - but what if we could kill them more humanely? A death specialist first in his field but forever under - appreciated he's charmed when a new generation of fascists come calling for his expertise. A Holocaust denier is on trial in Toronto - could Fred prove the gas chambers never existed? Newspapers descend. Talking heads have their say. A documentarist makes a film. Everyone will know his name though some things society will simply not abide. Dishonoured discredited disgraced. But Fred's work does not stop and the world may yet be reminded of the dangerous truth that some men are driven by forces far more powerful than shame. First published in 2013, this is the updated and definitive edition of Eugene Marten's chilling masterwork of transformational historical fiction.
Title: Layman's Report
Author(s): Marten Eugene
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Inc.
Barcode: 9780771051869
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: He comes to fix your photocopier but really Fred's an inventor. At night he goes to work. He has goals ambitions and when offered the task of building a better electric chair he jumps at the chance. People have to die - he believes in the occasional necessity of evil - but what if we could kill them more humanely? A death specialist first in his field but forever under - appreciated he's charmed when a new generation of fascists come calling for his expertise. A Holocaust denier is on trial in Toronto - could Fred prove the gas chambers never existed? Newspapers descend. Talking heads have their say. A documentarist makes a film. Everyone will know his name though some things society will simply not abide. Dishonoured discredited disgraced. But Fred's work does not stop and the world may yet be reminded of the dangerous truth that some men are driven by forces far more powerful than shame. First published in 2013, this is the updated and definitive edition of Eugene Marten's chilling masterwork of transformational historical fiction.
Title: Layman's Report
Author(s): Marten Eugene
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Inc.
Barcode: 9780771051869
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
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