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01979aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 22298D66223E11E6853776A2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160525010050 008 120720s2012 xxu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1467972274 020 $a 9781467972277 035 $a (OCoLC)801114622 040 $a JBU $b eng $e rda $c JBU $d BDX $d GPI $d VWL $d OCLCF $d RB0 $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3619.O935 $b W38 2012 100 1 $a Soutter, Nicholas Lamar. 245 14 $a The water thief / $c Nicholas Lamar Soutter. 264 1 $a USA : $b [CreateSpace], $c [2012] 300 $a 230 pages ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a Charles Thatcher is a private citizen, which is to say that he's the private property of the Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation. He's got problems: the cost of air is going up, his wife wants to sell herself to another corporation, and his colleagues are always trying to get him tossed into the lye vats. But when he discovers a woman stealing rainwater, he sees his chance to move up in the world, maybe even become an executive. He reports her, spinning a picture, not just of a thief, but of a seditionist and revolutionary, someone who believes in that long-dead institution called "government." Then she vanishes. Overcome with guilt, he tries to track her down. What he discovers is an underground movement every bit as seditious as the one he had imagined. But as he becomes enamored with their cause and with life outside his corporation, Charles must contend with a larger truth; in a world where everything is for sale and lies are more profitable than the truth, even a group of revolutionaries can have something to hide.--From back cover. 650 0 $a Capitalism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Political science $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dystopias $v Fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204082522.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110064432.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=22298D66223E11E6853776A2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search