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The agents
- Title
- The agents / Grégoire Courtois ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.
- Author
- Courtois, Grégoire
- Publication
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Mullins, Rhonda, 1966-
- Description
- 218 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "The agents don't know what they're agents of, but they're very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in a massive tower in which the agents both live and work. Empty floors serve as battlefields where different guilds of agents fight for territory. It seems that defenestration is the only way out, the 'ballet of suicides. ' It is here we meet Théodore, who has amputated his own toes and must maintain a 30-degree angle to keep his balance. And Solveig, who is pregnant, though agents don't usually have sex, as well as the artist Lazslo and self-mutilating Clara. And then there's Hicks, the new agent, who seems strangely happy and occupies a cubicle that is strategically very important. The battle for key territory is heating up, and the agents aren't sure which of them will make it out alive. If, indeed, that's what any of them want ... The author of the acclaimed The Laws of the Skies turns his hand from literary horror to futuristic dystopianism in this unforgettable marriage between The Office, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Tron."--
- Uniform Title
- Agents. English
- Alternative Title
- Agents.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Dystopias.
- Novels.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Note
- "Originally published as Les Agents by Le Quartanier, 2019"--Title page verso.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-552
- ISBN
- 9781552454329
- 1552454320
- OCLC
- 1245343811
- Author
- Courtois, Grégoire, author.
- Title
- The agents / Grégoire Courtois ; translated by Rhonda Mullins.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]
- Edition
- First English-language edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Added Author
- Mullins, Rhonda, 1966- translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Courtois, Grégoire. Agents. English. Agents. Toronto : Coach House Books, 2022 1770566899 9781770566880 (OCoLC)1264298304
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-552