Landscape with Invisible Hand
Book description
Award-winning author M. T. Anderson explores themes of art, truth and colonization in this sharply wrought satire of a future Earth.
From the author of dystopian tour de force Feed comes a soon-to-be literary classic that will resonate with young adults and adults alike.
When the vuvv first landed, it…
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I was unprepared for this book’s unrelenting pace, as it provides some of the most on-the-nose and funny skewering of our present era that I’ve read to date, via alien invasion and our coping strategy of viewing reality as a show. Anderson wields short chapters and surprising reveals in his last sentences as atypical, but effective, literary weapons. His framing of the whole work as a series of images, through chapter titles that read like illustrations, is brilliant and a quite literal representation of figurative language. Each time we’re reminded that this is a story about television, about fiction, about…
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