Price sticker on back, used book sticker at bottom of spine. Very clean, bright with no marks or dog ears noted. A timely discussion on the fragility of truth and identity in the information age. Raban is using fiction to explore the most important issues of our day at the highest artistic level. Mesmerizing, Sharp and Riveting. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Surveillance
Publisher: Vintage Books/Random House Inc., New York
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1400033659
ISBN 13: 9781400033652
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First Vintage Books Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a novel that is “as atmospheric with vague menace as a Hitchcock thriller” (The New York Review of Books).

In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identity cards are mandatory, terrorism alerts are a daily event, and privacy is laid bare on the Internet. For a freelance journalist, her daughter, a bestselling author, and a struggling actor, these tumultuous times provide the backdrop as their lives become inextricably bound in a darkly humorous, frighteningly accurate story of life in an unstable world.

About the Author

JONATHAN RABAN is the author of the novels Surveillance and Waxwings; his nonfiction works include Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, and Driving Home. His honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. He died in 2023.

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Stillwaters is an environmental education center in Kingston WA, operated by the Great Peninsula Conservancy. All book sales directly support community and school-based nature education, as well as preservation and restoration projects.

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Stillwaters Environmental Education Center
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