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June 12, 2030 started out like any other day... until a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond. The fallout from the earthquake national hope for the future against assurances from the past, in this all-too-believable imagining of where today's challenges could lead us tomorrow
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Contemporary, classical in form, plot-driven and epic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Albert Brooks
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312583729
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