| The Big U Contributor(s): Stephenson, Neal (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380816032 ISBN-13: 9780380816033 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: Stephenson's first novel is now back in print. With a plot that meanders through academic catch-22s; massive, sonic stereo wars; neon-worshiping cults; and a campus-wide civil war, this scathing send-up of American college life presages the rise and fall of one of the most imaginative novelists writing today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Science Fiction - Cyberpunk - Fiction | Romance - Romantic Comedy |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00050202 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.4" W x 8.02" (0.57 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel electrifying and hilarious. but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Stephenson, Neal: - Neal Stephenson is the bestselling author of the novels Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . . Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington. |