Onyebuchi Tochi
Onyebuchi Tochi - Goliath A Novel - Hardcover
Onyebuchi Tochi - Goliath A Novel - Hardcover
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Description: A New York Times Editors Choice Pick! A Best Book of the Year for Time | NPR | The Guardian | Gizmodo| Portalist | New York Public Library A Most Anticipated Pick for US a Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io 9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist Locus Award Finalist! Connecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist! Legacy Award Finalist!" In this ambitious novel dense with perspectives and social commentary Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor." The New York Times Editors Choice In his adult novel debut Hugo Nebula Locus and Naacp Image Award finalist and AL a Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven. In the 2050s Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick their houses are sent to the colonies what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked. A primal biblical epic flung into the future Goliath weaves together disparate narratives a space - dweller looking at New Haven Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth's crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping into a richly urgent mosaic about race class gentrification and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.
Title: Goliath A Novel
Author(s): Onyebuchi Tochi
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250782953
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2022
Category: Science Fiction
Description: A New York Times Editors Choice Pick! A Best Book of the Year for Time | NPR | The Guardian | Gizmodo| Portalist | New York Public Library A Most Anticipated Pick for US a Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io 9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist Locus Award Finalist! Connecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist! Legacy Award Finalist!" In this ambitious novel dense with perspectives and social commentary Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor." The New York Times Editors Choice In his adult novel debut Hugo Nebula Locus and Naacp Image Award finalist and AL a Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven. In the 2050s Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick their houses are sent to the colonies what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked. A primal biblical epic flung into the future Goliath weaves together disparate narratives a space - dweller looking at New Haven Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth's crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping into a richly urgent mosaic about race class gentrification and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.
Title: Goliath A Novel
Author(s): Onyebuchi Tochi
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250782953
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 1/25/2022
Category: Science Fiction
