The Resource Orphans, Ben Tanzer
Orphans, Ben Tanzer
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The item Orphans, Ben Tanzer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers are sent off to sell property on Mars to those who can afford to leave, leaving what's left to those who have little choice but to make do with what's left behind: burnt out neighborhoods, black helicopters policing the streets, flash mobs, the unemployed in their scruffy suits, robots taking the few jobs that remain, and clones who replace those workers who do find work so that a modicum of family stability can be maintained. It is a story about the impact of work on family. How work warps our best intentions. And how everything we think we know about ourselves looks different during a recession. This idea is writ large in the world of Orphans, where recession is all we know, work is only available to the lucky few, and this lucky few not only need to fear being replaced on the job, but in their homes and beds.It is also a story about drugs, surfing, punk music, lost youth, parenting, sex, pop culture as vernacular, and a conscious intersection of Death of a Salesman or Glengarry Glen Ross with the Martian Chronicles. Ultimately, Orphans is intended to be a contemporary story about manhood and what it means in today's world, told from the perspective of work and family, and how any of us manage the parameters that family and work produce; but it's a story told in a futuristic world, where our greatest fears are in fact already realized, because there isn't enough of anything, and we are all too easily replaced"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Isbn
- 9780875806952
- Label
- Orphans
- Title
- Orphans
- Statement of responsibility
- Ben Tanzer
- Subject
-
- FICTION / Fantasy / General
- trueFamily and work
- Fantasy fiction
- trueMars (Planet) -- Colonization
- trueNear future
- Orphans -- Fiction
- trueRecession (Economics)
- trueRobots
- trueUnemployment
- trueAndroids
- Bildungsromans
- trueChicago, Illinois
- trueClones and cloning
- trueCorporate power
- trueDespair
- Dystopian fiction
- trueDystopias
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this dystopian tale of a future Chicago, workers are sent off to sell property on Mars to those who can afford to leave, leaving what's left to those who have little choice but to make do with what's left behind: burnt out neighborhoods, black helicopters policing the streets, flash mobs, the unemployed in their scruffy suits, robots taking the few jobs that remain, and clones who replace those workers who do find work so that a modicum of family stability can be maintained. It is a story about the impact of work on family. How work warps our best intentions. And how everything we think we know about ourselves looks different during a recession. This idea is writ large in the world of Orphans, where recession is all we know, work is only available to the lucky few, and this lucky few not only need to fear being replaced on the job, but in their homes and beds.It is also a story about drugs, surfing, punk music, lost youth, parenting, sex, pop culture as vernacular, and a conscious intersection of Death of a Salesman or Glengarry Glen Ross with the Martian Chronicles. Ultimately, Orphans is intended to be a contemporary story about manhood and what it means in today's world, told from the perspective of work and family, and how any of us manage the parameters that family and work produce; but it's a story told in a futuristic world, where our greatest fears are in fact already realized, because there isn't enough of anything, and we are all too easily replaced"--
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- 10231458
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tanzer, Ben
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Orphans
- FICTION / Fantasy / General
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Orphans, Ben Tanzer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 993092
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Isbn
- 9780875806952
- Lccn
- 2013020897
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780875806952
- (OCoLC)849197756
- Label
- Orphans, Ben Tanzer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 993092
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Isbn
- 9780875806952
- Lccn
- 2013020897
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780875806952
- (OCoLC)849197756
Subject
- FICTION / Fantasy / General
- trueFamily and work
- Fantasy fiction
- trueMars (Planet) -- Colonization
- trueNear future
- Orphans -- Fiction
- trueRecession (Economics)
- trueRobots
- trueUnemployment
- trueAndroids
- Bildungsromans
- trueChicago, Illinois
- trueClones and cloning
- trueCorporate power
- trueDespair
- Dystopian fiction
- trueDystopias
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