{"product_id":"9781913505288","title":"The Visitors","description":"Author: Jessi Jezewska Stevens\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781913505288\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose ends, C is stuck with a struggling business, a stack of bills, a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend, and a persistent hallucination in the form of a rogue garden gnome with a pointed interest in systems collapse . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC needs to put her medical debt and her sex life in order, but how to make concrete plans with this little visitor haunting her apartment, sporting a three-piece suit and delivering impromptu lectures on the vulnerability of the national grid? Moreover, what\u0026amp;#x27;s all this computer code doing in the story of her life? And do the answers to all of C\u0026amp;#x27;s questions lie with an eco-hacktivist cabal threatening to end modern life as we know it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReplaying recent history through a distorting glass, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e is a mordantly funny tour through through a world where not only civic infrastructure but our darkest desires (not to mention our novels) are vulnerable to malware; where mythical creatures talk like Don DeLillo; where love is little more than a blip in our metadata. It peers into How We Got Here and asks What We Do Next, charting the last days of a broken status quo as the path is cleared for something new.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46861470662814,"sku":"ADS-9781913505288","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781913505288.jpg?v=1779252344","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781913505288","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}