MARC Record from marc_columbia

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008 990218s1999 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPR6059.D4$bR63 1999
082 00 $a823/.914$221
100 1 $aIdle, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50031974
245 14 $aThe road to Mars :$ba post modem novel /$cEric Idle.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c1999.
263 $a9909
300 $a309 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Carlton is an android (a 4.5 Bowie Artificial Intelligence Robot) who works for Alex and Lewis, two comedians from the twenty-second century who travel the outer vaudeville circuit of the solar system known ironically as the Road to Mars. His problem is that although as a computer he cannot understand irony, he is attempting to write a thesis about comedy, its place in evolution and whether it can ever be cured.
520 8 $aAnd he is also studying the comedians of the late twentieth century (including obscure and esoteric comedy acts such as Monty Python's Flying Circus) in his search for the comedy gene."--BOOK JACKET. "In the meantime, while auditioning for a gig on the Princess Di (a solar cruise ship), his two employers inadvertently offend the fabulous diva Brenda Woolley and become involved in a terrorist plot against Mars, the home of Showbiz."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Can Carlton prevent Alex and Lewis from losing their gigs, help them overcome the love thing, and finally understand the meaning of comedy in the universe?"--BOOK JACKET.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR6059.D4$iR63 1999