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Oval : A Novel by Elvia Wilk (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- ISBN
- 9781593764050
- Book Title
- Oval : a Novel
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Humorous / Black Humor, Thrillers / Technological, Science Fiction / General
- Item Weight
- 12.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1593764057
ISBN-13
9781593764050
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8044149715
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oval : a Novel
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Thrillers / Technological, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-045888
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "Deeply weird and unsettlingly hilarious, Wilk's dystopian debut pushes the grim absurdities of the present just a little bit further, into a near future that's too plausible for comfort . . . The book's true surprise is its startling emotional kick: If the circumstances are heightened to extremes, the relationships--with their delicate dynamics--are all too real. Witty and alarming, a satire with (unexpected) heart." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) " Oval is Don DeLillo's White Noise updated for 2019 minus the satire of academia plus a layer of millennial discontent . . . Swift plot, lotta underlineable sentences, what's not to love." -- Molly Young, Read Like the Wind "With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister." -- Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we're going. This book is a petri dish growing a new strain of heartbreak. I'm sick with love for it." -- Shelley Jackson, author of Riddance and Half Life "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk's debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read." -- Ned Beauman, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "Elvia Wilk's Oval is a marvel. At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly contemporary update of midperiod J. G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart." -- Jonathan Lethem "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "Deeply weird and unsettlingly hilarious, Wilk's dystopian debut pushes the grim absurdities of the present just a little bit further, into a near future that's too plausible for comfort . . . The book's true surprise is its startling emotional kick: If the circumstances are heightened to extremes, the relationships--with their delicate dynamics--are all too real. Witty and alarming, a satire with (unexpected) heart." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Wilk's debut novel is a strange, vivid thought experiment. In a near-future Berlin, scientist Anja lives in an eco-settlement on an artificial mountain . . . Anja's quiet, shy analysis turns a critical eye to our future, asking daring questions of how the desire to change our world for the better could instead turn it a new kind of toxic. Wilk makes the reader ponder how relying on corporations to invest in art and sustainability could put us on a perilous path: in Anja's world, artists are corporate entities and the drive toward sustainability gentrifies communities. Oval is a book of plot twists and turns that roots itself in Anja's relatable, practical soul, and scientific passion for inquiry." -- Booklist (starred review) " Oval is Don DeLillo's White Noise updated for 2019 minus the satire of academia plus a layer of millennial discontent . . . Swift plot, lotta underlineable sentences, what's not to love." -- Molly Young, Read Like the Wind "With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister." -- Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we're going. This book is a petri dish growing a new strain of heartbreak. I'm sick with love for it." -- Shelley Jackson, author of Riddance and Half Life "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk's debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read." -- Ned Beauman, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones, Advance Praise for Oval "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "Elvia Wilk's Oval is a marvel. At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly contemporary update of midperiod J. G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart." -- Jonathan Lethem "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "Deeply weird and unsettlingly hilarious, Wilk's dystopian debut pushes the grim absurdities of the present just a little bit further, into a near future that's too plausible for comfort . . . The book's true surprise is its startling emotional kick: If the circumstances are heightened to extremes, the relationships--with their delicate dynamics--are all too real. Witty and alarming, a satire with (unexpected) heart." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) " Oval is Don DeLillo's White Noise updated for 2019 minus the satire of academia plus a layer of millennial discontent . . . Swift plot, lotta underlineable sentences, what's not to love." -- Molly Young, Read Like the Wind "With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister." -- Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we're going. This book is a petri dish growing a new strain of heartbreak. I'm sick with love for it." -- Shelley Jackson, author of Riddance and Half Life "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk's debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read." -- Ned Beauman, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." -- Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "With wit and precision, Elvia Wilk pinpoints the moment when neoliberalism metastasizes into something far more sinister." -- Tom McCarthy, author of Satin Island and Remainder "So good, so dark, so funny, so cruelly smart about where we are and where we're going. This book is a petri dish growing a new strain of heartbreak. I'm sick with love for it." -- Shelley Jackson, author of Riddance and Half Life "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk's debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read." -- Ned Beauman, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto, Advance Praise for Oval A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year "J. G. Ballard meets William Gibson meets Jeff VanderMeer. Oval is an up-to-the-minute story about the twilight zones of corporate design, aesthetics, pharmacy, and bioengineering, where there's nothing consultants won't break in the quest for 'innovation.' What could possibly go wrong? Find out in Elvia Wilk's crisp and stylish debut book." -- McKenzie Wark, author of Gamer Theory and A Hacker Manifesto "Wonderfully clever and beguiling. The circle may be absolute, but the oval remains restless and bursts with potential." -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Sea Monsters "As a social comedy of modern relationships and gentrifying Berlin, Elvia Wilk's debut is exquisitely funny and exquisitely well observed. But it also has something weirder spliced into its DNA: fragments of the future that transform this story into a fabulous biopunk hybrid that's not quite like anything else I've ever read." -- Ned Beauman, author of Madness Is Better Than Defeat and The Teleportation Accident "Everything is work--mourning, clubbing, reading your partner's moods. And everything is a scam--plants that become buildings, jobs that become consultancies, apps that become jobs. With astonishing emotional accuracy, Oval records what it feels like to hover between two poles." -- Sasha Frere-Jones
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations as consultants. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions of empathy and power on every scale--from bodies to bureaucracies--to create an unsettling portrait of the future of Berlin., Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions of empathy and power on every scale - from bodies to bureaucracies - to create an unsettling portrait of the future. Oval is a fascinating portrait of the unbalanced relationships that shape our world, as well as a prescient warning of what the future may hold., "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "Elvia Wilk's Oval is a marvel. At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly-contemporary update of mid-period J.G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart." --Jonathan Lethem In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain--yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation--they seize the opportunity, but it isn't long before the experimental house begins malfunctioning. After Louis's mother dies, Anja is convinced he has changed. At work, Louis has become obsessed with a secret project: a pill called Oval that temporarily rewires the user's brain to be more generous. While Anja is horrified, Louis believes he has found the solution to Berlin's income inequality. Oval is a fascinating portrait of the unbalanced relationships that shape our world, as well as a prescient warning of what the future may hold., Bizarre weather. Unprecedented economic disparity. Artists employed by corporations. And the ultimate work of art: Oval, a pill that increases generosity. This unforgettable debut novel asks questions of empathy and power on every scale--from bodies to bureaucracies--to create an unsettling portrait of the future. In the near future, Berlin's real estate is being flipped in the name of "sustainability," only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants, and the weather is acting strange. When Anja and Louis are offered a rent-free home on an artificial mountain--yet another eco-friendly initiative run by a corporation--they seize the opportunity, but it isn't long before the experimental house begins malfunctioning. After Louis's mother dies, Anja is convinced he has changed. At work, Louis has become obsessed with a secret project: a pill called Oval that temporarily rewires the user's brain to be more generous. While Anja is horrified, Louis believes he has found the solution to Berlin's income inequality. Oval is a fascinating portrait of the unbalanced relationships that shape our world, as well as a prescient warning of what the future may hold. "A fascinating near-future exploration of relationships, sustainability, and power. An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel." --Jeff VanderMeer, author of Borne and Annihilation "Elvia Wilk's Oval is a marvel. At the core of this seductive, acute, superbly-contemporary update of mid-period J.G. Ballard lies a deep-beating, deep-dreaming heart." --Jonathan Lethem
LC Classification Number
PS3623.I5452O93 2019
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