Ambient (Jack Womack)
by Jack Womack
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Author: Jack WomackEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-07
ISBN: 0802134947
Number of pages: 259
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: A Splendid Mix of Anthony Burgess and William Gibson
Summary: 5 Stars
"Ambient" is William Gibson's cyberpunk vision cloaked in a future English quite akin to Burgess' in "A Clockwork Orange". Womack's daring, original prose is coupled with his stark, bleak vision of a future United States in which New York City has virtually succumbed to urban rot and environmental degradation, resembling a vast maximum security prison under martial law by the United States Army. Overseeing most of the economy is Dryco, a private firm run by Thatcher Dryden, an avaricious, insane version of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. The story is narrated by Seamus O'Malley, Dryden's security guard, who lusts after Avalon, Dryden's girl Friday. This is a provocative, difficult novel to read, but one which brilliantly shows Womack's ample literary talents.
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