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His classmates make millions on Wall Street and the Internet while Billy makes do with a series of temp jobs. He has a girlfriend, Sally Hu, but they're a couple by default. Then Billy receives a letter from a collection agency seeking satisfaction on three years of unpaid student loans. Death is mentioned as an alternative to payment. Now every passer-by is a potential hit-man, and Billy has to flee. Providence delivers Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy 'normals' to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. So Billy signs up for a fourteen-day trial of a new atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia...Through the sharp-eyed, self-doubting Billy, David Gilbert exposes the crisis of the contemporary human condition: how to connect? As funny as it is profound, The Normals is a tour de force.
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The Normals, David Gilbert
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
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- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- The Normals
- Autor*innen
- David Gilbert
- Verlag
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0571196543
- ISBN13
- 9780571196548
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Gegenwartsliteratur, USA, Amerikanische Literatur, New York, Experimente (Wissenschaft), Komik, Schizophrenie
- Originaltitel
- The normals
- Bewertung
- 2,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- His classmates make millions on Wall Street and the Internet while Billy makes do with a series of temp jobs. He has a girlfriend, Sally Hu, but they're a couple by default. Then Billy receives a letter from a collection agency seeking satisfaction on three years of unpaid student loans. Death is mentioned as an alternative to payment. Now every passer-by is a potential hit-man, and Billy has to flee. Providence delivers Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy 'normals' to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. So Billy signs up for a fourteen-day trial of a new atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia...Through the sharp-eyed, self-doubting Billy, David Gilbert exposes the crisis of the contemporary human condition: how to connect? As funny as it is profound, The Normals is a tour de force.