Meer over het boek
His classmates make millions on Wall Street and the Internet while Billy makes do with a series of temp jobs. He has a girlfriend, Sally Hu, but they're a couple by default. Then Billy receives a letter from a collection agency seeking satisfaction on three years of unpaid student loans. Death is mentioned as an alternative to payment. Now every passer-by is a potential hit-man, and Billy has to flee. Providence delivers Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy 'normals' to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. So Billy signs up for a fourteen-day trial of a new atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia...Through the sharp-eyed, self-doubting Billy, David Gilbert exposes the crisis of the contemporary human condition: how to connect? As funny as it is profound, The Normals is a tour de force.
Een boek kopen
The Normals, David Gilbert
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2005
- Bindwijze
- (Paperback)
Betaalmethoden
We missen je recensie hier.
- Titel
- The Normals
- Auteurs
- David Gilbert
- Uitgever
- Faber & Faber
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2005
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0571196543
- ISBN13
- 9780571196548
- Reeks
- Categorieën
- Tags
- Hedendaagse literatuur, Verenigde Staten, Amerikaanse Literatuur, New York, Experimenten (wetenschap), Komische elementen, Schizofrenie
- Oorspronkelijke titel
- The normals
- Beoordeling
- 2,85 van 5
- Aantekening
- His classmates make millions on Wall Street and the Internet while Billy makes do with a series of temp jobs. He has a girlfriend, Sally Hu, but they're a couple by default. Then Billy receives a letter from a collection agency seeking satisfaction on three years of unpaid student loans. Death is mentioned as an alternative to payment. Now every passer-by is a potential hit-man, and Billy has to flee. Providence delivers Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy 'normals' to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. So Billy signs up for a fourteen-day trial of a new atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia...Through the sharp-eyed, self-doubting Billy, David Gilbert exposes the crisis of the contemporary human condition: how to connect? As funny as it is profound, The Normals is a tour de force.