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Penguin
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
400 pages ISBN: 0143125427 EAN: 9780143125426 Kindle: B00AEBETMK Paperback / e-Book
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Science Fiction
Few books are greeted with rave reviews everywhere from Time
magazine and Salon to Boingboing and io9. Yet, Max Barry’s
Lexicon is that rare thing: a thriller as high-octane as
they come, driven by a brilliant and original plot that
connects very modern questions of privacy and data
collection to centuries-old ideas about the power of
language. At an exclusive training school at an undisclosed location
outside Washington, D.C., students are taught to control
minds, to wield words as weapons. The very best graduate as
“poets” and enter a nameless organization of unknown
purpose. Recruited off the street, whip-smart Emily Ruff
quickly learns the one key rule: never allow another person
to truly know you. Emily becomes the school’s most talented
prodigy, until she makes the catastrophic mistake of falling
in love.
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