Breaking the Wheel |
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| Author:
| MacLeod, Ian |
| Cover Design by:
| Behera, Jayanta |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4776-3693-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2012 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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Alex White doesn't fit in. An aimless university graduate with no ambition, his only desire is to save enough money to travel the world so he can 'find his headspace'. He wants to belong to something, but doesn't know what that something is. Despising the can-do office culture of a society that increasingly puts work and money centre stage, Alex believes he has seen the 'machine' for what it is ? and is determined to escape it at all costs. Ian P. MacLeod's distinctive first novel...
More DescriptionAlex White doesn't fit in. An aimless university graduate with no ambition, his only desire is to save enough money to travel the world so he can 'find his headspace'. He wants to belong to something, but doesn't know what that something is. Despising the can-do office culture of a society that increasingly puts work and money centre stage, Alex believes he has seen the 'machine' for what it is ? and is determined to escape it at all costs. Ian P. MacLeod's distinctive first novel charts its bright but feckless anti-hero's uncertain voyage through drink-fuelled friendships, drug-addled relationships and low-level jobs as he pursues that most elusive of human goals ? happiness.