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The Subprimes : A Novel Paperback - 2016
by Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
Description
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- Title The Subprimes : A Novel
- Author Karl Taro Greenfeld
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2016
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0062132431I4N00
- ISBN 9780062132437 / 0062132431
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.57 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Dixon
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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From the rear cover
In a future America that feels increasingly familiar, you are your credit score. Extreme wealth inequality has created a class of have-nothings: Subprimes. Their bad credit ratings have lost them jobs and make them unemployable. Jobless and without assets, they have walked out on mortgages, been foreclosed upon, or can no longer afford a fixed address. Fugitives who must keep moving to avoid arrest, they wander the globally warmed American wasteland searching for day labor and a place to park their battered SUVs for the night.
Karl Taro Greenfeld's trenchant satire follows the fortunes of two families whose lives reflect this new dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-financially-fittest America. Desperate for work and food, a Californian Subprime family has been forced to migrate east, hoping for a better life. They are soon joined in their odyssey by a writer and his family--slightly better off but falling fast. Eventually they discover a small settlement of Subprimes who have begun an agrarian utopia built on a foreclosed exurb. Soon, though, the little stability they have is threatened when their land is targeted by job creators for shale-oil extraction.
But all is not lost. A hero emerges--a woman on a motorcycle--suspiciously lacking a credit score . . . who may just save the world.