Scarlett Thomas

Popco (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

PopCo tells the story of Alice Butlera subversively smart girl in our commercial-soaked world who grows from reclusive orphan to burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by mystery, codes, math, and the sense her grandparents gave her that she could change the world.

Aliceslight introvert, crossword compositorworks at PopCo, a globally successful and slightly sinister toy company. Lured by their CEO to a Thought Camp out on the moors, PopCo's creatives must invent the ultimate product for teenage girls.

Meanwhile, Alice receives bizarre, encrypted messages she suspects relate to her grandfather's decoding of a centuries-old manuscript that manyincluding her long-disappeared fatherbelieve leads to buried treasure. Its key, she's sure, is engraved on the necklace she's been wearing since she was ten.

Using the skills she learned from her grandparents and teaching us aspects of cryptanalysis, Alice discovers the source of these creepy codes. Will this lead her to the mysterious treasure or another, even more carefully guarded secret?

“The code-breaking and -making heroine of [this] smart, engaging novel takes a critical view of the corporate marketing of cool . . . a captivating heroine.”Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547543932
• Artikelnr.: 40175774

Autorenporträt

Scarlett Thomas is the author of PopCo and The End of Mr. Y. She has been nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, and named Writer of the Year by Elle UK, one of the twenty best young writers by the Independent, and one of twenty best writers under forty by the Telegraph.

Rezensionen

An anticorporate fable with enough code-breaking tips, puzzles and graphs, charts, postscripts and appendixes to satisfy Lewis Carroll New York Times