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The Heap audiobook
- By: Sean Adams
- Narrator: David Sadzin
- Category: Fiction, Satire
- Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 07, 2020
- Language: English
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The Heap Audiobook Summary
“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel.” –Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters
Blending the piercing humor of Alexandra Kleeman and the jagged satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before – and after – its demise.
Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticales once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building’s mountainous remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land.
Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Verticales, who is alive and miraculously broadcasting somewhere under the massive rubble. For months, Orville has lived in a sea of campers that surrounds the Heap, working tirelessly to free Bernard–the only known survivor of the imploded city–whom he speaks to every evening, calling into his radio show.
The brothers’ conversations are a ratings bonanza, and the station’s parent company, Sundial Media, wants to boost its profits by having Orville slyly drop brand names into his nightly talks with Bernard. When Orville refuses, his access to Bernard is suddenly cut off, but strangely, he continues to hear his own voice over the airwaves, casually shilling products as “he” converses with Bernard.
What follows is an imaginative and darkly hilarious story of conspiracy, revenge, and the strange life and death of Los Verticales that both captures the wonderful weirdness of community and the bonds that tie us together.
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The Heap Audiobook Narrator
David Sadzin is the narrator of The Heap audiobook that was written by Sean Adams
Sean Adams is a graduate of Bennington College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The Heap is his first novel.
About the Author(s) of The Heap
Sean Adams is the author of The Heap
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The Heap Full Details
| Narrator | David Sadzin |
| Length | 9 hours 27 minutes |
| Author | Sean Adams |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | January 07, 2020 |
| ISBN | 9780062988997 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Heap is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062988997.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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