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***Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020***

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF VERNON GOD LITTLE

''Pierre''s high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.'' -- Independent

***

It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City.

All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.

But Shelby-Ann his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone.

So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will change, every day, and at mortal speed. Until Lonnie finds himself in a stitch: he'll have to join this new world, or wither in it. Or can he mastermind a vanishing act?

The story of a hapless father's love and loss, and a speedball, starburst satire, Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate, freewheeling work from the winner of the Booker Priz

Meanwhile in Dopamine City

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 1 June 2020
      ISBN-13 9780571228942
      978-0571228942
      ISBN-10 571228941

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ***Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020***

      FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINING AUTHOR OF       VERNON GOD LITTLE

      ''Pierre''s high-risk prose explores and expands the cartoonish, taboo-busting outer edges of literary possibility.'' -- Independent

      ***

      It's a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City.

      All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.

      But Shelby-Ann his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone.

      So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will change, every day, and at mortal speed. Until Lonnie finds himself in a stitch: he'll have to join this new world, or wither in it. Or can he mastermind a vanishing act?

      The story of a hapless father's love and loss, and a speedball, starburst satire, Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate, freewheeling work from the winner of the Booker Priz

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