The Gone-Away World

The Gone-Away World

About the 'neon fuzz': a note on the book jacket from designer Jason Booher...

"When you read Harkaway's novel, a gigantic sense of weirdness and cool and doom surround the characters. To capture all that plus the absurd humor that pervades this amazing book, the jacket obviously had to be something special. So the otherworldliness that perhaps only neon fuzz can bring hopes to evoke these feelings and add to the strength of and interplay between the words in the title and author's name."

A wildly entertaining debut novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor with a stunning futuristic vision to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship and the apocalypse.

There couldnâ€™t be a fire along the Jorgmund Pipe. It was the last thing the world needed. But there it was, burning bright on national television. The Pipe was what kept the Livable Zone safe from the bandits, monsters and nightmares the Go Away War had left in its wake. The fire was a very big problem.

Enter Gonzo Lubitsch and his friends, the Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company, a team of master troubleshooters who roll into action when things get particularly hot. They helped build the Pipe. Now they have to preserve itâ€”and save humanity yet again. But this job is not all it seems. It will touch more closely on Gonzoâ€™s life, and that of his best friend, than either of them can imagine. And it will decide the fate of the Gone-Away World.

Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana and ultracool epic, The Gone-Away World is a story ofâ€”among other thingsâ€”pirates, war, mimes, greed and ninjas. But it is also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroesâ€”however unlikely they may seem.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-09-02
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307268860

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-09-02
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307268860

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