EBOOK Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World
Opis
A Novel
"e;Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound."e; Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseIn the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It&'s a boring job, but he likes itthere&'s a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house. Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn&'t like it when you go off script. Meanwhile, Leonard&'s sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her &';book club,&' leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts. A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you can&'t save the world with pizza coupons.From the Trade Paperback edition.
"e;Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound."e; Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional UniverseIn the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It&'s a boring job, but he likes itthere&'s a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house. Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn&'t like it when you go off script. Meanwhile, Leonard&'s sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her &';book club,&' leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts. A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you can&'t save the world with pizza coupons.From the Trade Paperback edition.