- World Wide Web, Psychological fiction, Electronic surveillance, Immigrants
"In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The government's scrutiny is omnipresent, civilians freely indulge their curiosity on the Internet, journalists pursue their investigations with relentless determination, and children both snoop on their parents and manipulate new technologies."
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Jonathan Raban
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 257
- Publisher
- Pantheon, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited, Pantheon Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375422447
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