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02869aam a2200469 i 4500 001 3A82AB1A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 210407s2022 onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1552454320 020 $a 9781552454329 035 $a (OCoLC)1245343811 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d MLSOD $d NLC $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d TOH $d SINLB $d BKL $d YDX $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d IH9 $d NZAUC $d NUI $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a lac 050 4 $a PQ3919.3.C695 $b A7413 2022 100 1 $a Courtois, GreÌgoire, $e author. 240 10 $a Agents. $l English 245 14 $a The agents / $c Grégoire Courtois ; translated by Rhonda Mullins. 250 $a First English-language edition. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Coach House Books, $c [2022] 300 $a 218 pages ; $c 21 cm 530 $a Issued also in electronic formats. 520 $a "The agents don't know what they're agents of, but they're very busy agenting, which means watching endless data feeds in their cubicles, cubicles that are piled one on top of another in a massive tower in which the agents both live and work. Empty floors serve as battlefields where different guilds of agents fight for territory. It seems that defenestration is the only way out, the 'ballet of suicides. ' It is here we meet Théodore, who has amputated his own toes and must maintain a 30-degree angle to keep his balance. And Solveig, who is pregnant, though agents don't usually have sex, as well as the artist Lazslo and self-mutilating Clara. And then there's Hicks, the new agent, who seems strangely happy and occupies a cubicle that is strategically very important. The battle for key territory is heating up, and the agents aren't sure which of them will make it out alive. If, indeed, that's what any of them want ... The author of the acclaimed The Laws of the Skies turns his hand from literary horror to futuristic dystopianism in this unforgettable marriage between The Office, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Tron."-- $c Provided by publisher. 500 $a "Originally published as Les Agents by Le Quartanier, 2019"--Title page verso. 650 0 $a Clerks $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-mutilation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Offices $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Survival $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Imaginary wars and battles $v Fiction. 655 0 $a Intelligence officers $v Fiction. 655 2 $a Fictional Work $0 (DNLM)D022922 655 7 $a Dystopias. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726591 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Romans. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000475 700 1 $a Mullins, Rhonda, $d 1966- $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014723.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3A82AB1A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search