Plastic -- Scott Guild - Hardcover
An attack at her place of work brings Erin another too-intimate experience, but it also brings her Jacob: a blind figurine whom she comforts in the aftermath, and with whom she feels an almost instant connection. For the first time in years, Erin begins to experience hope--hope that until now she's only gleaned from watching her favorite TV show, the surrealist retro sitcom "Nuclear Family." Exploring the wild wonders of the virtual reality landscape together, it seems that possibly, slowly, Erin and Jacob may have a chance at healing from their trauma. But then secrets from Erin's family's past begin to invade her carefully constructed reality, and cracks in the facade she's constructed around her life threaten to reveal everything vulnerable beneath.
Both a crypto-comedic dystopian fantasy and a deadly serious dissection of our own farcical pre-apocalypse, Scott Guild's debut novel is an achingly beautiful, disarmingly welcoming, and fabulously inventive look at the hollow core of modern American society--and a guide to how we might reanimate all its broken plastic pieces.
Author: Scott Guild
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 02/13/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780593316764
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 12/11/2023
Booklist 12/01/2023 pg. 100
About the Author
SCOTT GUILD received his MFA from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin, and his PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He served for years as assistant director of Pen City Writers, a prison writing initiative for incarcerated students. He is currently an assistant professor at Marian University in Indianapolis, where he teaches literature and creative writing. Before his degrees, Scott was the songwriter and lead guitarist for the new wave band New Collisions, which toured with the B-52s and opened for Blondie.
Product Attributes: Absurdist, Fiction, Fiction - General, Hardcover, Humorous, Literary, Pantheon Books, Science fiction, Scott Guild