Bubblegum - Adam levin
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Adults, Literature
Adam Levin is one of our wildest writers and our funniest, and Bubblegum is a dazzling accomplishment of wit and inventiveness. (George Saunders), Levins brains may have earned him a cultbut here he swells to a democratic reach. Give him a try sometime. His gates wide open. (Garth Risk Hallberg, The New York Times Book Review), The astonishing new novel by the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award-winning author of The Instructions., Bubblegum is set in an alternate present-day world in which the internet does not exist and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology - a flesh-and-bone robot called the Curio - has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out of sync with the harsh realities of a world he feels alien to but must find a way to live in., At age 38,
