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May Book Club
Monday, May 17, 2004
7:00 PM
Location:
Silver Diner
3200 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
Metro: Clarendon (Orange Line)
Phone: 703.812.8600
Silver Diner Website
Book for MAY: Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
From Publishers Weekly
Gibson, known as the "patron saint of cyberpunk lit," has made his
reputation with futuristic tales. Though his new novel is set in the
present, baroque descriptions of everyday articles and menacing
anthropomorphic treatment of the Internet and sister technology give it
a
sci-fi feel. Cayce Pollard, a market researcher with razor-sharp
intuition,
makes big bucks by evaluating potential products and advertising
campaigns.
In London, she stays in the trendy digs of documentary filmmaker friend
Damien (away on assignment), whom she e-mails frequently. When Cayce
brusquely rejects the new logo of advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend,
she
earns his respect and a big check but makes an enemy of his graphic
designer, vindictive Dorotea Benedetti. Hubertus later hires Cayce to
ferret
out the origin of a series of sensual film clips appearing guerrilla
style
on computers all over the world and attracting a growing cult
following.
Cayce treats this as a standard job until somebody breaks into Damien's
flat
and hacks into her computer. Suddenly every casual encounter carries
undertones of danger. Her investigative trail takes her to Tokyo and
Russia
and through a rogue's gallery of iconoclastic Web-heads. Casting a
further
shadow is the memory of her father, Win, a security expert (probably
CIA)
missing and presumed dead in the World Trade Center disaster of exactly
a
year earlier. For complicated reasons even she doesn't understand, she
connects her current dilemma with her father's tragedy and follows the
trail
with the fervor of a personal vendetta. Gibson's brisk, kinetic style
and
incisive observations should keep the reader entertained even when
Cayce's
quest begins to lose urgency. Gibson's best book since Mona Lisa
Overdrive
should satisfy his hardcore fans while winning plenty of new ones.
For more information, email bookclub@dchoos.org
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