MARC Record from marc_columbia

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008 011214s2002 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3561.R565$bE88 2002
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aKrist, Gary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88015422
245 10 $aExtravagance :$ba novel /$cGary Krist.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBroadway Books,$c2002.
300 $a291 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies. The city in question is London in the 1690s, but it is also New York in the 1990s.
520 8 $aThe new technologies are diving bells, pneumatic winches, and "sucking worm" drainage engines; but they are also wireless telecommunication devices, patented biotechnology processes, and revolutionary electronic Internet routers. Only the sense of unlimited possibility remains the same throughout.".
520 8 $a"In his new novel, Gary Krist does something unique in the history of fiction: tell the exact same story with the same set of characters in two separate times and settings, in language appropriate to each. Unfolding simultaneously in two distant - but remarkably similar - periods of history, Extravagance is a comic picaresque novel of financial mania, the story of a world gripped by a terminal case of irrational exuberance."--BOOK JACKET.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3561.R565$iE88 2002