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003			OCoLC
005			20181203114328.0
008			161024s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016037060
020			_a9780399575433 _q(hardback)
020			_a039957543X _q(hardback)
035			_a(OCoLC)961213811 _z(OCoLC)961309552 _z(OCoLC)980944398
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dBTCTA _dBDX _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dGO6
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050	0	0	_aPS3607.E7745 _bE65 2017
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
092			_aFIC GERRARD 2017
999			_b03277742
100	1		_aGerrard, David Burr _eauthor. _95232
245	1	4	_aThe epiphany machine / _cDavid Burr Gerrard.
264		1	_aNew York : _bG.P. Putnam's Sons, _c[2017]
300			_a418 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too. That's the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users' forearms. It's an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular one's been circulating New York since the 1960s. The ad works. And, oddly enough, so might the device. A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowood's parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter can't avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machine's accurate predictions: his mother's abandonment and his father's disinterest. So when Venter's grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his family's mistakes, he's only too happy to oblige. Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the device's sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. There's an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam won't jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police. It may be a hoax, but that doesn't mean what Adam is selling isn't also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyon's apparatus may just be right about us all"--
650		0	_aResponsibility _vFiction. _95233
655		7	_aScience fiction _2lcgft _914
942			_2ddc _cBOOK