Bibliograph

Blackbox, a novel in 840 chapters, Nick Walker

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Blackbox, a novel in 840 chapters, Nick Walker

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Blackbox

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Nick Walker

Sub title

a novel in 840 chapters

Summary

Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse. In America and Britain and the sky in between, an apparently disparate group of people is connected, whether intimately or by chance, to the tragic death of a stowaway on board flight AF266.As the action veers across countries and time zones, the stowaway's real identity is revealed through stolen black box recordings, answering machine messages, sitcom outtakes, and court transcripts. Told in a shifting, circular narrative, the interwoven lives make up a jolting and layered puzzle that builds to a heart-stopping, chilling climax. An intelligent and invigorating novel with a bizarre menu of dysfunctional characters, Blackbox is the story of an attempt to erase a life on tape

Target audience

adult

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