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The last battle has already been fought and nature has lost. Suddenly society finds itself confronted by an even greater adversary: boredom. This is our hero, Zero Coupon, understands perfectly, providing hungry consumer with everything from shoes of iguana-skin leather to the latest siren-singing computer chip. Zero Coupon is the quintessential survivor in an age where change has been lifted to the level of necessity, and although the resulting breed of human beings is sleeker, bigger and longer-lived than its predecessor, it has become totally dependent. Every reader will feel the shock of recognition in this rendition of a glittering world.

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Krekorian's first novel (winner of the Plover Nivola Contest) aims considerably higher than its author can reach and serves as a useful reminder that good prose cannot be fashioned from bad poetry. At some indeterminate date in an unimaginable future, society has triumphed over the natural world to such a degree that work as we know it is almost entirely unnecessary and most lives are given over wholly to the pursuit of distraction and pleasure. Zero Coupon, our hero, is a sort of advertising pimp who panders to the desires of the masses, desires that he invents and manipulates to serve his own ends. If his ends are less than clear, and if the exact nature of his services remain shadowy from beginning to end, that probably has more to do with Krekorian's prose style than his intentions--though it would be hard to say which is murkier. From the very first line (``Autumn in Los Angeles: a season for discounts. Hey, it's a jingle out there''), we're treated to an elaborate double-talk constructed largely of parodies of advertising copy. It is in fact unclear whether anything is happening at all, and the entire story may simply be an interior monologue that Zero ends as abruptly as he began. While there are other characters, we rarely learn their names and they never appear more than once, so they function more as dream figures than actual narrative forces. Similarly, Zero's elaborate meditations on everything from sex (``Frequent sexual contact with strangers causes amnesia'') to investments (``Gentlemen prefer bonds'') are sporadic and unfocused, amounting in the end to more of a ramble than a rant. Lacking the obsessiveness of a Miller or a Burroughs, Krekorian can give us only those predecessors' egomania and confusions, with little to tease us along and nothing at the center of the mess. Pretentious nonsense. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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  • PublisherAcademy Chicago Publishers
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 0917635191
  • ISBN 13 9780917635199
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages121

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