- Fiction, Virtual reality, Violence in mass media, Mass murder
After visiting a virtual-reality store--selling the scenario of a mass shooting--a killer carries out a mass shooting himself. FBI agent Teresa Simons tries to determine if the experience influenced him. A look at the effect of violence-entertainment on people.
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Grave, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Priest
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 393
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, GALLIMARD, Denoël
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780312205416
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