Pattern Recognition
Author: Gibson, William
ISBN: 9780241953532
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Sep 2011
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thrillerP#39; GQ
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the worldP#39;s coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown P#39;garage KubrickP#39;. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive P#39;KubrickP#39; himself. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;William GibsonP#39;s new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.
ISBN: 9780241953532
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 07 Sep 2011
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback / softback
P#39;A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thrillerP#39; GQ
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the worldP#39;s coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown P#39;garage KubrickP#39;. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive P#39;KubrickP#39; himself. Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;William GibsonP#39;s new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.
