Overview

""The river didn't take me to a new world. It just took me three miles downstream to a place where the air tasted like ozone and the men spoke in the dialect of a machine."" In the dying town of Vanceburg, Kentucky, where the prosperity of the Atlas Glass Works has been replaced by rusted corrugated metal and ""For Sale"" signs, seventeen-year-old Cassius Finn is a ""glitch in the accounting."" Raised by a ruffian father and left behind by a mother who chose her own survival, Cassius has learned the hard way that ""civilization"" is often just another word for a cage. When his father's violence forces him to flee, Cassius hitches a ride on a spectral freight train, expecting to find freedom on the horizon. Instead, he falls into the ""Invisible City""-a vast, subterranean world of industrial myth and philosophical surrealism hidden beneath the feet of the surface world. Guided by a traveler named Linc and a twitchy courier named Silas, Cassius must navigate a landscape where the rules are absolute yet entirely absurd. From the Library of Dust, where forgotten memos settle like gold, to the Steam-Powered Court, where identity is treated as ""Evidence,"" Cassius discovers that every system in the city-and the world above-is designed to turn the individual into a commodity. Drawing on the classic river-bound wanderlust of Mark Twain, the surreal logic of Lewis Carroll, and the intellectual steel of Ayn Rand, The Concrete River is a bold hybrid of grit and philosophy. It is the story of a boy who refuses to be owned, a man who learns that his own rational judgment is the only territory that can never be truly conquered. In a world that demands we all be part of the engine, the most radical thing you can be is the weather.

Full Product Details

9798250208017

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Tab Content 6

Countries Available