America Fantastica: A Novel by Tim O'Brien
- America Fantastica: A Novel
- Tim O'Brien
- Page: 464
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780063318519
- Publisher: HarperCollins
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Notes From Your Bookseller The acclaimed author of The Things They Carried is back after his two-decade disappearance, and what a return it is. This is a true American novel that does not shy away from the social touchpoints that have polluted the modern day. “Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most. His new novel’s ironic depiction of a post-Iraq war, mid-COVID, and mid-Trump world is piercing and razor-sharp.” —HARUKI MURAKAMI An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review) One of Esquire's 20 Best Books of the Year * Named one of Fall 2023's most anticipated books: New York Times, Associated Press, Kirkus, Goodreads, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and more At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars. Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag. “I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.” So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie Bing. Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who destroyed his life. By Monday the pair reach Mexico; by winter, they are in a lakefront mansion in Minnesota. On their trail are hitmen, jealous lovers, ex-cons, an heiress, a billionaire shipping tycoon, a three-tour veteran of Iraq, and the ghosts of Boyd’s past. Everyone, it seems, except the police. In the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, America Fantastica delivers a biting, witty, and entertaining story about the causes and costs of outlandish fantasy, while also marking the triumphant return of an essential voice in American letters. And at the heart of the novel, amid a teeming cast of characters, readers will delight in the tug-of-war between two memorable and iconic human beings—the exuberant savior-of-souls Angie Bing and the penitent but compulsive liar Boyd Halverson. Just as Tim O’Brien’s modern classic, The Things They Carried, so brilliantly reflected the unromantic truth of war, America Fantastica puts a mirror to a nation and a time that has become dangerously unmoored from truth and greedy for delusion.
Book Review: “America Fantastica” by Tim O'Brien
The story involves a bunch of people, some winners, mostly losers, none tightly wedded to reality or truth. I'll note that these people are
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The protagonist is Boyd Halverson who is sick to death of his job managing a J.C. Penney store and impulsively robs a bank and grabs the teller Angie Bing as a
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Tim O'Brien's manic satire follows a disgraced journalist on a criminal road trip through a myth-addled nation.
AMERICA FANTASTICA
A satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit. One day in 2019 a man named Boyd Halverson, who feels his life is “a breathtaking failure,” robs a
America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien
'America Fantastica' is a dark satire with a story that fits neatly into the American genre. That is, road trips, guns, gambling, sex and politics. O'Brien has
America Fantastica
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Set in the post-truth era of 2019 and the COVID era of 2020 this rollicking tale is part political satire, part "Twilight Zone" and part "Fargo". The characters
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America Fantastica opens in 2019, when a “lying infection” has taken hold of the nation. The getaway morphs into a quest for revenge on the
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Haunted by his past and weary of his present, Boyd has one goal before the authorities catch up with him: settle a score with the man who
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