Publication
Anchor (2015), Edition: Reprint, 384 pages
Description
"A fiendishly clever dystopian novel for the digital age, The Word Exchange is a fresh, stylized, and decidedly original debut about the dangers of technology and the power of the printed word"--
Awards
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (Longlist — 2014)
Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (Science Fiction and Fantasy — 2014)
Original language
English
Original publication date
2014-04-08
Media reviews
Readers will recognize just from this outline traces of many other books, from Emberton to Stephen King’s Cell and Tony Burgess’s language-virus classic Pontypool Changes Everything. These echoes only highlight how deep a cultural anxiety Graedon is addressing. Anana is not alone in seeing
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something end-of-the-worldish in the war on the word Show Less
Physical description
384 p.; 5.16 inches
ISBN
0345806034 / 9780345806031