{"product_id":"9780802198457","title":"Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA satire of a surreal technocratic future by the national-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBad Monkeys: \u003c\/i\u003e“Dizzyingly readable” (Thomas Pynchon).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e High above Manhattan, android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity’s power to dream. In the festering sewers below, a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant’s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why, in this wild romp by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eFool on the Hill\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLovecraft Country\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan’s assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbie Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of them, and many more besides, are about to be caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots . . .\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[An] SF roller-coaster satirizing the horrors of our nascent technocracy . . . Told with breezy good humor, this exuberantly silly tale will find an audience among admirers of the day-glo surrealism of Steve Erickson and the tangled conspiracy theories of David Foster Wallace.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A turbocharged neo-Dickensian hot rod [with] plenty of intellectual horsepower.” —Neal Stephenson","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118503575792,"sku":"9780802198457","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802198457_p0.jpg?v=1763727084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802198457","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}