All are intended to show readers how the value of culture erodes in an isolated world.” There are also pop-culture favorites from the period, including psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary urbanologist Jane Jacobs, and poet Allen Ginsberg. A difficult relationship between the two has dire consequences.
Main characters include a fictionalized Robert Moses, the powerful public official who reshaped New York City and its environs, and his brother Paul, an electrical engineer. If he stacked all his manuscript pages since he began the book back in 1993 it would stand 6 feet tall, a shade taller than himself, Mr. The finished product weighs more than 4 pounds. “A masterwork of modern speculative adventure.”
“A postmodern masterwork that outdoes Pynchon in eccentricity-and electricity, with all its dazzling prose.”
