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Bezig met laden... Lexicon: A Novel (origineel 2013; editie 2014)door Max Barry (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkLexicon door Max Barry (2013)
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Poets—yes, you read that right, poets—are specially-trained operatives who can change the minds of anyone, provided they use the right words in the right way. This two-tiered narrative gives us Emily, who has been recruited to join the mind-control group, and Wil, who is being tortured when the book opens and as his amnesia recedes, we see more and more of his link to the poets. ... As always, Barry is a social critic first and foremost. The power of his work comes from the absurdist take he has on already-absurd elements of our consumer-driven, advertising-fueled culture. Mark this one up as another winner in the Barry canon. So there are several different genres and tones jostling for prominence within “Lexicon”: a conspiracy thriller, an almost abstract debate about what language can do, and an ironic questioning of some of the things it’s currently used for. The sheer noise of the thriller plot and its inevitable violence end up drowning out some of the other arguments Barry is making. Modern-day sorcerers fight a war of words in this intensely analytical yet bombastic thriller. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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HTML: At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematics. Instead, they are taught to persuade. The very best will graduate as "poets": adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive. Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff becomes the school's most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love. Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Het verhaal draait om mensen die door de Academy worden opgeleidt tot 'poet'. Poets zijn meesters in overtuigen. Ze gebruiken daarvoor speciale woorden die het brein direct kunnen instrueren. De leider van de Academy, Yeats, wil op deze manier een soort van wereldheerschappij creeren. Maar de hoofdpersonen, Emily (aka Woolf) en Elliott willen daar niet in meegaan. En Harry, de vriend van Emily, blijkt immuun voor zelfs het meest gevaarlijke woord, het 'bareword'.
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