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01985aam a2200349 i 4500 001 1048B6F090E311EEA8442A1A39ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231202011859 008 231018t20232023cauab 000 1 eng d 020 $a 195211974X 020 $a 9781952119743 040 $d SILO 050 14 $a PS3610.O3396 $b P39 2023 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231018 100 1 $a Johnson, Eskor David, $e author. 245 10 $a Pay as you go : $b a fable / $c Eskor David Johnson. 264 1 $a San Francisco : $b McSweeney's, $c [2023] 300 $a 500 pages : $b illustration, map ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "New to town and delusionally confident, Slide imagined himself living in a glossy building with doormen and sweeping views of the skyline. Instead he's landed in a creaking, stuffy apartment with two roommates: a loping giant who hardly leaves his room, and a weight-obsessed neurotic who keeps no fewer than forty-seven lamps throughout the house, blazing at all hours. Unwilling to accept this fate, Slide--a barber with an opaque past--embarks on a quest for the perfect apartment, pinballing through the sprawling, madcap city of Polis and its endless procession of neighborhoods. As he bounces from foldout couch to disaster-relief tent, falling in with some tough types, Slide begins to realize that he's going to have to scratch and claw just to claim a place for himself in this world--let alone a place with in-unit laundry"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Barbers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Roommates $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Apartments $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Dystopian fiction. $2 lcgft. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 6 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509012455.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240106010719.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231212010445.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20231205010816.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231205010612.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231202011938.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1048B6F090E311EEA8442A1A39ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search