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The Epiphany Machine audiobook

  • By: David Burr Gerrard
  • Narrator: Ari Fliakos
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 12 hours 28 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2017
  • Language: English
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The Epiphany Machine Audiobook Summary

*Best New Science Fiction for Summer by The Washington Post
*A Most-Anticipated book of 2017 by The Millions


Everyone else knows the truth about you, now you can know it, too.
 
That’s the slogan. The product: a junky contraption that tattoos personalized revelations on its users’ forearms. It’s an old con, playing on the fear that we are obvious to everybody except ourselves. This particular ad has been circulating New York since the 1960s and it works. But, oddly enough, so might the device…

A small stream of city dwellers buy into this cult of the epiphany machine, including Venter Lowood’s parents. This stigma follows them when they move upstate, where Venter can’t avoid the whispers of teachers and neighbors any more than he can ignore the machine’s accurate predictions: his mother’s abandonment and his father’s disinterest. So when Venter’s grandmother finally asks him to confront the epiphany machine and inoculate himself against his family’s mistakes, he’s only too happy to oblige.

Like his parents before him, Venter is quick to fall under the spell of the device’s sweat-stained, profane, and surprisingly charming operator, Adam Lyons. But unlike them, Venter gets close enough to Adam to learn a dark secret. There’s an undeniable pattern between specific epiphanies and violent crimes. And Adam won’t jeopardize the privacy of his customers by alerting the police.

It may be a hoax, but that doesn’t mean what Adam is selling isn’t also spot-on. And in this sprawling, snarling tragicomedy about accountability in contemporary America, the greater danger is that Adam Lyon’s apparatus may just be right about us all. This is “can’t-miss pop culture.”(Vox)

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Narrator Ari Fliakos
Length 12 hours 28 minutes
Author David Burr Gerrard
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Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 30, 2024
ISBN 9781524775735

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The publisher of the The Epiphany Machine is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: cyberpunk, fiction books, fiction, contemporary, magical realism, science fiction, science fiction and fantasy, science fiction books, alternate history, prediction, future, cult leader, dark humor, alternative history books, contemporary literature, sci-fi, literary fiction, sci fi books, sci fi, sci-fi books, alternate history books, realistic fiction books, historical fiction, novels, books fiction, literature, sci fi book, books science fiction, science fiction novels, mystery, historical, fantasy, music, vampires, thrillers, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Alternative History, Fiction, Science Fiction, General The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

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The publisher of the The Epiphany Machine is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524775735.

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