Surveillance

By: Jonathan Raban

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Paperback | 12 February 2008

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272 Pages

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19.68 x 13.34 x 1.91

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a novel that is "as atmospheric with vague menace as a Hitchcock thriller" (The New York Review of Books).

In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identity cards are mandatory, terrorism alerts are a daily event, and privacy is laid bare on the Internet. For a freelance journalist, her daughter, a bestselling author, and a struggling actor, these tumultuous times provide the backdrop as their lives become inextricably bound in a darkly humorous, frighteningly accurate story of life in an unstable world.

Industry Reviews

"As atmospheric with vague menace as a Hitchcock thriller." --Michael Dirda, New York Review of Books

"Scarily beautiful . . . . [Raban is] a gifted writer who explores the human condition with tenderness, empathy and rueful wit."

--The Washington Post

"A timely disquisition on the fragility of truth and identity in the information age." --Bloomberg News

"Raban is using fiction to explore the most important issues of our day and doing so at the highest artistic level." --Oregonian

"Heart-thumping dread permeates this creepy, stunning book." --Tucson Citizen

"Raban is a wonderful and cerebral stylist, a master of arresting syntactical inversions with an incisive view of our contemporary moment." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"Mesmerizing. . . . Sharp and riveting. . . . A masterful job." --Newsday

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