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THE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi, SIGNED, 1st ed/1st print (2015, Hardcover)
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- Buy it nowTHE WATER KNIFE by Paolo Bacigalupi, SIGNED, 1st ed/1st print (2015, Hardcover)
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- Condition
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- Seller notes
- “Fine in fine dust jacket. See full description below.”
- Signed By
- Paolo Baccigalupi
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Age Level
- Adults
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Subject
- Science Fiction
- Edition
- First Edition
- Type
- Novel
- Year
- 2015
- Special Attributes
- Signed by the Author
- Personalized
- No
- Cultural Region
- American Literature
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780385352871
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Water Knife
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Dystopian, Thrillers / General, Literary, Science Fiction / General
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Paolo Bacigalupi, New York Times -Bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist, dives once again onto our uncertain future with his first thriller for adults since his multi-award winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl . In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg-breaker, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet, while the poor get nothing but dust. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything that she represents. With bodies piling up, bullets flying, and Phoenix teetering on collapse, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other's hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385352875
ISBN-13
9780385352871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203995635
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Dystopian, Thrillers / General, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Book Title
Water Knife
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"These days are coming, and as always fiction explains them better than fact. This is a spectacular thriller, wonderfully imagined and written, and racing through it will make you think--and make you thirsty." --Lee Child, author of Personal "An intense thriller and a deeply insightful vision of the coming century, laid out in all its pain and glory. It's a water knife indeed, right to the heart." --Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Aurora "Anyone can write about the future. Paolo Bacigalupi writes about the future that we're making today, if we keep going the way we are. It makes his writing beautiful . . . and terrifying."-- John Scalzi, author of Lock In " The Water Knife is an noir-tinged, apocalyptic vision of the near-future: What will the world be like, and how will we live in it? Bacigalupi already seems to live there. Once I started, I couldn't put it down." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble "A fresh cautionary tale classic, depicting an America newly shaped by scarcity of our most vital resource. The pages practically turn themselves in a tense, taut plot of crosses and double-crosses, given added depth by riveting characters. This brutal near-future thriller seems so plausible in the world it depicts that you will want to stock up on bottled water."-- Library Journal , starred review "The frightening details of how the world might suffer from catastrophic drought are vividly imagined. The way the novel's environmental nightmare affects society, as individuals and larger entities--both official and criminal--vie for a limited and essential resource, feels solid, plausible, and disturbingly believable. The dust storms, Texan refugees, skyrocketing murder rate, and momentary hysteria of a public ravenous for quick hits of sensational news seem like logical extensions of our current reality. An absorbing . . . thriller full of violent action."-- Kirkus , "These days are coming, and as always fiction explains them better than fact. This is a spectacular thriller, wonderfully imagined and written, and racing through it will make you think--and make you thirsty." --Lee Child, "These days are coming, and as always fiction explains them better than fact. This is a spectacular thriller, wonderfully imagined and written, and racing through it will make you think--and make you thirsty." --Lee Child "An intense thriller and a deeply insightful vision of the coming century, laid out in all its pain and glory. It's a water knife indeed, right to the heart." --Kim Stanley Robinson "Anyone can write about the future. Paolo Bacigalupi writes about the future that we're making today, if we keep going the way we are. It makes his writing beautiful . . . and terrifying."-- John Scalzi "A fresh cautionary tale classic, depicting an America newly shaped by scarcity of our most vital resource. The pages practically turn themselves in a tense, taut plot of crosses and double-crosses, given added depth by riveting characters. This brutal near-future thriller seems so plausible in the world it depicts that you will want to stock up on bottled water."-- Library Journal , starred review "The frightening details of how the world might suffer from catastrophic drought are vividly imagined. The way the novel's environmental nightmare affects society, as individuals and larger entities--both official and criminal--vie for a limited and essential resource, feels solid, plausible, and disturbingly believable. The dust storms, Texan refugees, skyrocketing murder rate, and momentary hysteria of a public ravenous for quick hits of sensational news seem like logical extensions of our current reality. An absorbing . . . thriller full of violent action."-- Kirkus
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2015-001576
Target Audience
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Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.A3447w38 2015
Copyright Date
2015
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