Description
A hard-boiled detective tale full of talking animals and murder, from the award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Arrest.
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.
Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from a beloved author is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.38w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780156028974
ISBN10: 0156028972
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | General
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Literary
Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage.
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.
Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from a beloved author is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.
Author: Jonathan Lethem
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 09/01/2003
Pages: 269
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.38w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9780156028974
ISBN10: 0156028972
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction | General
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General
- Fiction | Literary