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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Publication date July 2, 2015
Pages 304
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780007592883
ISBN-10 0007592884
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $14.80
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 'A major-league prose writer who has fun in every sentence' Jonathan Franzen 'A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of contemporary environmental and political threats' The New York Times Jack Smith's life revolves around work, alcohol, painkillers, and pornography, and he sees no reason to change. But when he falls in love with the daughter of the leader of a new Californian religion known as Prescription for a Superior Existence, his humdrum life is changed forever. Abducted and enrolled at one of PASE's spiritual training centres near San Francisco, Jack's scepticism is challenged by a sense of community and purpose previously unknown to him. He discovers that he might not be average. He might be extraordinary. But nothing is as it seems, and the question of whether he and those around him are headed toward transcendence or annihilation soon takes on global significance.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9781416561057
 
from Scribner (June 10, 2008)
9781416561057 | details & prices | 247 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Jack Smith is your average single thirtysomething businessman.
Paperback
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from Harpercollins Pub Ltd (July 2, 2015)
9780007592883 | details & prices | 304 pages | List price $14.80
About: 'A major-league prose writer who has fun in every sentence' Jonathan Franzen 'A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of contemporary environmental and political threats' The New York Times Jack Smith's life revolves around work, alcohol, painkillers, and pornography, and he sees no reason to change.

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