Lexicon / Max Barry.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : The Penguin Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 390 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1101604905
- 1594205388 (hbk.)
- 9781101604908
- 9781594205385 (hbk.)
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Main Library | Fiction | Barry Max | Available | 33111007204098 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell. Lexicon reads like Elmore Leonard high out of his mind on Snow Crash ." -- Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians and The Magician King
"Best thing I've read in a long time . . . a masterpiece." --Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool
Stick and stones break bones. Words kill.
They recruited Emily Ruff from the streets. They said it was because she's good with words.
They'll live to regret it.
They said Wil Parke survived something he shouldn't have. But he doesn't remember.
Now they're after him and he doesn't know why.
There's a word, they say. A word that kills.
And they want it back . . .
Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless.