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The Fountain at the Center of the World

The Fountain at the Center of the World

Robert Newman (Author)

$14.95
  • Publisher: Soft Skull Press
  • Format: Book
  • Binding: pb
  • Pages: 339
  • Released: Jan 2, 2004
  • ISBN-13: 9781932360110

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This visionary epic ranges over the United States, Britain, Costa Rica, and Mexico, from container crate to corporate conference suite, from refugee center to fishing trawler, ultimately converging on the streets of Seattle amid the tear gas and rubber bullets of the 1999 protests.
"A sublimely frisky novel, one that throws more acid-tipped darts at NAFTA and the WTO than a foot-high stack of Mother Jones and Nation back issues...the Catch-22 of the anti-globalization protest movement and the fictional complement to Naomi Klein's influential treatise No Logo." —New York Times Book Review
"An epic novel for the anti-globalist movement...full of incident, emotion and polemic...an expansive, fluid, and moving story." —Independent On Sunday
"It's like bootleg Chomsky...a serious and intelligent book. It's a novel that confronts everything that is wrong with the world and demands that which is right..." —The Guardian UK

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