The Egg Code

Mike Heppner

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Vintage
15 December 2003

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

With astonishing scope, flair and originality, Mike Heppner's debut explores our secret lives and most desperate impulses even as they are penetrated by a global web of mysterious provenance and dubious promise.

Few who live in Big Dipper Township have even heard about anything called the Egg Code; they're busy enough as it is. At one end of this tiny Midwestern community, a motivational speaker starts choking on his own words, while at another, an impressionable dancer struggles to realize her recurrent dreams of flying. An estranged wife becomes a counterfeit folklorist, while an aging typographer is besieged by regret. And-in one household-a ""living arrangements"" salesman is harried to the verge of losing his livelihood, while his wife stage-mothers their talentless son and eventually decides to take destiny into her own hands.

Also nearby, however, is a lone hacker bent on destroying the demon among them all- a router, the Gloria 21169, that, along with thousands of others, trafficks in information from all the world over to comprise the Internet. But the Gloria, or the corporation that controls it, has taken command of the entire network, at a tremendous cost to this young man's family and to the consternation of parties on both sides of the technological revolution.

The crisscrossing of these many lives reveals how much (if at all) these quantum shifts in our society have affected our hopes, behavior and prospects. As much Our Town as 2001, and as funny as it is suspenseful, The Egg Code is both a hugely entertaining novel and the announcement of a spectacular career.

By: Mike Heppner
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9780375727252
ISBN 10: 0375727256
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 15 December 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Egg Code

A hugely rewarding barnburner for the Internet age. - St. Louis Post-Dispatch <br> Engaging and lively. . . . [Heppner] is a young master of this old art, and we should be happy to see him arrive so splendidly. - The Washington Post <br> Heppner is a fearsome cultural critic disguised in a novelist's clothing. -Entertainment Weekly <br> This debut novel marries the threat of rogue technology with the notion of generational legacy. -The New York Times Book Review <br>

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