The Broken World

Tim Etchells

ISBN 10: 0099519453 / ISBN 13: 9780099519454

Published by Random House UK, 2010

About this Item

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Seller Inventory # M00099519453-G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Broken World
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099519453
• ISBN 13: 9780099519454
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Writing an online "walk-through" to a computer game of Borgesian complexity can take up a lot of time. So much so, it can be difficult to see things turning sour in the real world. As our narrator grapples with his players' guide, life starts to intrude in troublesome ways. Things aren’t going so well with the live-in girlfriend and the job preparing "cooked circular food" is getting increasingly hard to stomach. To top it all, the best friend is clearly depressed and acting weirder by the day. But despite all this, his attention is focused on the Broken World—an engrossing, possibly addictive, adventure that takes him from town to town in a struggle with zombies, agents, puzzles, and mysteries. It’s not clear which of these worlds—the real or the online—is the more challenging, or where survival tips are more urgently needed. What is clear is that he must work out solutions to problems involving life, love, and happiness, not just in the Broken World, but in the real one too.

About the Author

Tim Etchells is a writer and an artist whose work reaches across boundaries from fiction through cutting edge theater to video and visual art. He lives part of the time in New York.