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020 $a9781933354972 (pbk.)
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100 1 $aGreer, James,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92063452
245 14 $aThe failure /$cby James Greer.
260 $aNew York :$bAkashic,$c[2010], ©2010.
300 $a201 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Failure is a picaresque novel set in Los Angeles about two guys who conceive and badly execute a plan to rob a Korean check-cashing store in order to finance the prototype for an impossibly ridiculous Internet application. The main character, Guy Forget, is a twenty-something drifter with brains, good looks, and absolutely no ambition except to get rich without having to work. His best friend, Billy, is a professional dog walker who ties the dogs to the rear bumper of his run-down car and drives very slowly. Along the way we meet, among others, Guy's Midwestern parents, his theoretical-physicist brother, his girlfriend Violet McKnight, and his secret nemesis, Sven Transvoort, who hates Guy with unusual passion for reasons that are not immediately clear." "Using elements of pop culture, tech jargon, and noirish satire, the book attempts to answer the question not enough people ask themselves on a regular basis: Am I a failure?"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSlackers$vFiction.
650 0 $aRobbery$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010111336
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$xSocial conditions$vFiction.
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