Gun, With Occasional Music
Title | Gun, With Occasional Music |
Year for Search | 1994 |
Authors | Lethem, Jonathan [Allen](b. 1964) |
Date Published | 1994 |
Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
Place Published | San Diego, CA |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including "Forgettol", "Acceptol", and "Regrettol" which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals. |
Additional Publishers | U.K. ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2001. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (b. 1964) |
Full Text | 1994 Lethem, Jonathan [Allen] (b. 1964). Gun, With Occasional Music. Future authoritarian dystopia presented as a mystery novel set in the future. Drugs, including “Forgettol”, “Acceptol”, and “Regrettol” which do what their names suggest, and can be blended to produce a combination. Detectives are known as Inquisitors. Personal questions considered impolite. Sex change operations are common. There are evolved animals. |