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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

By Cory Doctorow

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| Hardcover | 9780765312785

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Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveaContinue

Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wingswings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers is a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstepwell on their way to starvation because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned....bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who build miracles of hardware scavenged from the city's Dumpsters. But Alan's past won't leave him aloneand Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends.

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  • I really liked the other books of Cory Doctorow's that I've read, but I just couldn't get into this one. The book is written from the perspective of Alan, who is also referred to as Andy, Adam, or anything starting with an A. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and included in ... (continue)

    I really liked the other books of Cory Doctorow's that I've read, but I just couldn't get into this one. The book is written from the perspective of Alan, who is also referred to as Andy, Adam, or anything starting with an A. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and included in his brothers are an island and a set of Russian nesting dolls. I just don't get it.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 320 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0765312786
  • ISBN-13: 9780765312785
  • Publisher: Tor Books
  • Pub date: Jul 01, 2005
  • Dimensions: 22 cm x 15 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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