Overview
With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.
Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture -- politics, big science, and the media -- spectacularly collide.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780316010856
- ISBN-10: 0316010855
- Publisher: Back Bay Books
- Publish Date: June 2005
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.56 x 0.79 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
- Page Count: 288
