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Author:
Chaon, Dan, author.
Title:
Sleepwalk / Dan Chaon.
Edition:
Large print edition.
Publisher:
Thorndike Pressa part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
539 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Automobile travel--United States--Fiction.
Mercenary troops--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Conspiracies--Fiction.
Large type books.
Artificial intelligence--Fiction.
Road fiction.
Science fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Summary:
"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary"-- Provided by publisher.
Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing problem, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady, often dangerous errands for a powerful and ruthless operation he's never troubled himself to learn too much about. He has lots of connections, but no true ties. His longest relationships are with an old rescue dog with posttraumatic stress, and a childhood friend as deeply entrenched in the underworld as he is, who, lately, he's less and less sure he can trust. Out of the blue, one of his many burner phones heralds a call from a twenty-year-old woman claiming to be his biological daughter, Cammie. She says she's the product of one of his long-ago sperm donations; he's half certain she's AI. She needs his help. She's entrenched in a widespread and nefarious plot involving Will's employers, and continuing to have any contact with her increasingly fuzzes the line between the people Will is working for and the people he's running from.
ISBN:
9798885784160 (large print : hardcover)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1246726745
Locations:
DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)
VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)
ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)
GHPD771 -- Grimes Public Library (Grimes)
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)
GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)
SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

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