Bøger af Mark Slouka

Warning: A technological revolution is unfolding that promises, in the words of its creators, to redefine what it means to be human. Face-to-face communication ("F2F" to those in the know) is quickly becoming obsolete; already we turn to computers for information, entertainment, companionship--even love. Science fiction? Hardly. This is the brave new vision of the digital avant-garde, computer crusaders leading a high-tech assault on what was once known as reality. Sophisticated, well-funded, unabashedly messianic, they have the power, the technological know-how, and the marketplace savvy to make good on many of their wildest prophecies. With War of the Worlds, Mark Slouka gives us a funny, but eerily disturbing, humanist's look at the culture of cyberspace.

A searing, poignantly rendered collection of stories chronicling the lives of ordinary people battling the forces of love and loss, from "one of the great unsung writers of our time" (Colum McCann).

The best-selling author of The Visible World returns with a stunning coming-of-age novel set in the town of Brewster. As America's fading dream of the fifties is challenged by the Summer of Love and cultural revolution, three friends face the demons of the past and dream of a life beyond their town

A 2013 Booklist Editors Choice: Best Adult Books for Young Adults A powerful story about an unforgettable friendship between two teenage boys and their hopes for escape from a dead-end town."

From the author of The Visible World, a Richard & Judy Book Club book

From the author of The Visible World, a Richard & Judy Book Club book

As a boy growing up in New York, the narrator's parents' memories of their Czech homeland seem to belong to another world. It is only as an adult, when he makes his own journey to Prague, that he is finally able to piece together the truth of his parents' past: what they did, whom his mother loved, and why they were never able to forget.