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The Unbinding

By Walter Kirn

By Walter Kirn

By Walter Kirn

By Walter Kirn

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Jan 30, 2007 | ISBN 9780307277411

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Jan 23, 2007 | ISBN 9780307279767

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    About The Unbinding

    Before AidSat I had no self, no soul. I was a billing address. A credit score. I had a TV, a computer, a phone, a car, an apartment, some furniture, and a health-club locker. Then AidSat hired me and gave me a life. And not just one life. Hundreds of them, thousands.

    Kent Selkirk is an operator at AidSat, an omni-present subscriber service ready to answer, solve, and assist with the client’s every problem. Through the AidSat network Kent has a wealth of information at his fingertips–information he can use to monitor subscribers’ vital signs, information he can use to track their locations, information he can use to insinuate himself into their very lives.

    About The Unbinding

    Before AidSat I had no self, no soul. I was a billing address. A credit score. I had a TV, a computer, a phone, a car, an apartment, some furniture, and a health-club locker. Then AidSat hired me and gave me a life. And not just one life. Hundreds of them, thousands.

    Kent Selkirk is an operator at AidSat, an omni-present subscriber service ready to answer, solve, and assist with the client’s every problem. Through the AidSat network Kent has a wealth of information at his fingertips–information he can use to monitor subscribers’ vital signs, information he can use to track their locations, information he can use to insinuate himself into their very lives.

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    About Walter Kirn

    Walter Kirn is a contributing editor to Time and GQ and a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, GQ, Vogue, New York,… More about Walter Kirn

    About Walter Kirn

    Walter Kirn is a contributing editor to Time and GQ and a regular reviewer for the New York Times Book Review. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, GQ, Vogue, New York,… More about Walter Kirn

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Anchor
    Jan 30, 2007 | 176 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307277411

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $10.99
    Published by Anchor
    Jan 23, 2007 | 176 Pages | ISBN 9780307279767
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    "Kirn’s The Unbinding merits our close attention, not only for itself–the man is a talented writer–but for what might be portended for the art of fiction."—The Boston Globe"Kirn depicts technology as a looming Orwellian force, spying on the citizenry, turning our insides outward. . . . The loss of privacy makes for comedy, at first, and then for a sense of foreboding as trampled boundaries refuse to reappear." —Los Angeles Times

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