Her distinctions also include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship. It will appeal to baseball fans (kinda), sci-fi fans/futurists (maybe) and anyone who has concerns about a tech-infused dystopia. I bought this book based on the good reviews and the recommendation it got in the New York Times. They are monitored by the omnipresent technology that runs the country. Highly recommended. It’s as if the author prepared to write this book by Googling a bunch of baseball jargon and then regurgitating every term they learned. There are 0 reviews and 2 ratings from United Kingdom. Of course, the book is really an allegory with broader reach. Technology has invaded every aspect of everyone’s lives. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. available on this website as two PDFs. Start by marking “The Resisters” as Want to Read: Error rating book. It's also about humanity and contains a message that, even if our world is consumed or drastically changed, it doesn't mean we have to lose the very essence of what makes us who we are, we always have the power to resist. Are you crying? It is thought-provoking and hard to set down! --Ann PatchettThe time: not so long from now. It is the USA in the “near future” when everything you imagine could be bad about the Internet, AI, climate change and race/class divides is happening. I was lucky enough to be able to catch a Q&A with Gish Jen at the Central Library in Downtown LA this week; her effervescent personality shines through in a novel that, thankfully, isn’t really about baseball much at all. The story is creative and it touches on many relevant political/societal/cultural themes — at times more subtly than others. Read 341 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. It’s about a parent’s love for a child, and the need to protect them as they head out into the world. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. There's a problem loading this menu right now. It is all wrapped up in the most American kind of sports drama that builds and builds until there's a powerful, if bittersweet, resolution. It’s as if the author prepared to write this book by Googling a bunch of baseball jargon and then regurgitating every term they learned. One teenage girl, Gwen, has the opportunity to cross over from surplus to netted because of her great talent. Imagine if Amazon was in charge of America and Alexa was constantly telling you what to do. This takes away from the actual story (which is a good one), and severely disrupts the flow. This is Gish Jen's moment. [She] has a gifted ear for the manipulative … THE RESISTERS… Your neighborhood is not what you think it is. A great dystopian novel. Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn’t married Bill? Through the lens of something as pure, democratic and American as baseball, we have to consider how our insatiable thirst for economic efficiency, winner-take-all outcomes and data-driven perfectionism are likely to drive us down a very slippery slope towards a dystopia that actually isn't that hard to imagine us reaching in the relatively near future. Try again.
In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I wanted to like this so much. Speculative fiction by Gish Jen? There moments of hope and happiness in the dystopia and some of the best baseball scenes I’ve read. This novel is slow to start and has distracting invented terms but so glad I stuck with it.
To say this book is amazing sells it short. Or so it seemed to me.”, “Try to distinguish ignorance from malice. Gish Jen's brilliance makes that happen -- I'm in awe! The Resisters NPR coverage of The Resisters: A Novel by Gish Jen. I could only ask myself: What’s the point? The Resisters Gish Jen does an incredible job of raising some of the most important issues of our time, all within the context of America's favorite pastime.
The Resisters is the story of a “female Satchel Paige” who just wants to play ball in a society oppressed by technology and capitalism. In Gish Jen's outstanding new novel, The Handmaid's Tale meets The Natural and this time the natural is a brown-skinned, blue-haired girl with an arm of gold who throws like Satchel Paige. Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2020. The start of 2020 has already delivered new books from some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, from William Gibson and Mike... To see what your friends thought of this book.
Although I was struck by the extraordinary, uncannily timed prescience of Gish Jen's account of what happens to a society which has undergone a severe crisis, I was more impressed by her ability to look unflinchingly at the undersides of our species and still find reasons for joy, humor, and resilience. Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2020.
The Resisters is set in a not-too-distant future where America has been fully automated and its citizens divided into two groups: the netted (useful and employed) and the surplus (those whose jobs were eliminated). It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. by Knopf. These groups live very different lives, largely separated from each other, but with one commonality. Her distinctions also include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship. 1984 meets The Great American Novel. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
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BUT: this is such a tedious read!! ", The premise and framework is fun, feels random but almost plausible. Was I just predisposed to like it and overlook its flaws? The Resisters
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