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The unknown knowns :a novel /

Rotter, Jeffrey.

The unknown knowns :a novel /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The unknown knowns :/ Jeffrey Rotter.
Reminder of title:	a novel /
Author:	Rotter, Jeffrey.
Published:	New York :Scribner, : 2009.,
[NT 15000922]:	1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:	259 p. ;24 cm.;
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	"Jim Rath's wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost aquatic race called the Nautikons. In truth, the man is a low-level agent of the Department of Homeland Security. What follows is a riveting story of two quixotic men who stalk each other toward a bloody showdown -- a spectacularly moronic act of terrorism at an aging water park. The Unknown Knowns -- its title is a reference to a quote from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country's Homeland Security Department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a hilarious assessment of the human condition. Fresh, imaginative, and deft, The Unknown Knowns marks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction." ... from Publisher's Description.
Subject:	Mistaken identity - Drama. -
Subject:	Colorado - Fiction. -
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008030705-b.html
ISBN:	1416587020 (hbk.) :

The unknown knowns :a novel /
Rotter, Jeffrey.

The unknown knowns :a novel /Jeffrey Rotter. - 1st Scribner hardcover ed. - New York :Scribner,2009. - 259 p. ;24 cm.

"Jim Rath's wife has grown tired of his hobbies: his immaculately maintained comics collection, his creepy underwater experiments, and his dreams of building a museum based on the Aquatic Ape Theory of Human Evolution. On the night that she leaves him, Jim thinks he has spotted an emissary from a lost aquatic race called the Nautikons. In truth, the man is a low-level agent of the Department of Homeland Security. What follows is a riveting story of two quixotic men who stalk each other toward a bloody showdown -- a spectacularly moronic act of terrorism at an aging water park. The Unknown Knowns -- its title is a reference to a quote from former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- is a brilliant send-up of the insidious language and sometimes tragically comic focus of our country's Homeland Security Department. Combining the social satire of Kurt Vonnegut with the paranoid delusions of Thomas Pynchon, Rotter takes everyday domestic fixations and turns them into a hilarious assessment of the human condition. Fresh, imaginative, and deft, The Unknown Knowns marks the arrival of a unique new voice in literary fiction." ... from Publisher's Description.

ISBN: 1416587020 (hbk.) :NT913Subjects--Corporate Names:

401723
United States.
Dept. of Homeland Security--Fiction.Subjects--Topical Terms:

397310
Mistaken identity
--Drama.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

303929
Colorado
--Fiction.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

224268
Psychological fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3618.O8693 / U55 2009

The unknown knowns :a novel /
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