Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century

TitleBeautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century
Year for Search1993
AuthorsJacobs, Harvey [Jay]( 1930-2017)
Date Published1993
PublisherCeladon Press
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Near future dystopian satire in which everyone is barcoded at birth. The novel focuses on a man who, due to an accident in a supermarket, has his barcode replaced by one for a brand of soup.

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(1930-2017)

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1993 Jacobs, Harvey (1930-2017). Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century. New York: Celadon Press. PSt

Near future dystopian satire in which everyone is barcoded at birth. The novel focuses on a man who, due to an accident in a supermarket, has his barcode replaced by one for a brand of soup.