America City

Beckett's novel is a timely and urgent reminder of the consequences of climate change and the need for unity in facing the challenges it presents.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 416 pages
\n Publication date: 06 September 2018
\n Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Arthur C. Clarke Award-Winning Author

An unsettling read that manages to feel both timely and urgent, Beckett offers an intelligent and visceral reminder that unless we change what today looks like, tomorrow will be turbulent indeed.

- Guardian

America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods, and hurricanes force entire populations to abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between the north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow Americans from the south.

Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole mission is to keep America together, reconfiguring the entire country to meet the challenge of the new climate realities as a single, united nation.

When he runs for President, Holly becomes his right-hand woman, doing battle on the whisperstream, where stories are everything, and truth counts for little. But can they bring America together or have they set the country on a new, but equally devastating, path?

\n Weight: 262g\n
Dimension: 180 x 171 x 23 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781786491541\n
Edition number: Main\n