Research Catalog

Title

The egg code : a novel / Mike Heppner.

Author

Heppner, Mike, 1972-

Publication

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Tan, Virginia
• Gaffney, Evan

Description

xiii, 462 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Few who live in Big Dipper Township have even heard about anything called the Egg Code; they're busy enough as it is. At one end of this tiny Midwestern community, a motivational speaker starts choling on his own words, while at another, an impressionable dancer struggles to realize her recurrent dreams of flying. An estranged wife becomes a counterfeit folklorist, while an aging typographer is besieged by regret."--Jacket.

Subjects

• Psychological fiction
• Computer users > Fiction
• Internet > Fiction
• Middle West > Fiction
• Computer networks > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Psychological fiction.

Note

• Design credits provided by AIGA Design Archives.

Contents

Back in the Day -- The Nature of Systems -- Two Views of the War -- Dipshit, U.S.A. -- Old Man, Alone -- Our Fine Community -- A Bad Marriage -- Transcript of Stiessen-Hasse Meeting, June 17, 1972 -- The Favorite Searf -- Break -- Another Not-Very-Good Marriage -- The Tree with Four Trunks -- Paper -- Sheesh -- The Terrorist -- I Want Some Answers -- The Fear of Being Touched -- The Divine Ray of Inspiration -- Coming Together -- The Morning After -- Go Girl -- Portfolio -- The Plot Thickens Somewhat -- The Black Man in America -- A Brief History of the Printed Word -- The Flow -- P.O.P. -- The Seedy Side of Office Politics -- Thriller -- The Plot Reaches New Levels of Thickness -- Two Excerpts from Many Voices, One Vision by Madonna Hasse Skye -- The Tale of Tsin-gah and the Secret Star -- The Tale of Jen-teen and the Second Draft -- Promises Made -- The Concerned Parent -- Who Speaks for Our Children? -- Night! -- Seeds of Discontent -- The Egg Code -- The Passion of Martin Field -- Listings for the First Week of September, 1995 -- The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg -- Listings for the Second Week of September, 1995 -- By the Balls -- Listings for the Third Week of September, 1995 -- Prodigy -- A September Stroll -- Sheesh Redux -- Book Deal -- The Adam Syndrome -- Skye Versus Skye -- Virus -- Z -- Your Tax Dollars at Work -- Creative Bullshit -- Promises Kept -- The Fall Campaign -- Skeletons! -- Promises Broken -- The Price of Fame -- Polymicroniphate -- When Good Things Happen to Bad People.

ISBN

• 0375412905
• 9780375412905

LCCN

2002019022

OCLC

• ocm48957994
• 48957994
• SCSB-4290601

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries