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The Wall of America by Thomas M. Disch is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wall of America about?

These surreal, satiric stories pay a mesmerizing visit to the shadowy zone that lies between our everyday lives and a perilously tangible near-future. In ?The Wall of America," the Department of Homeland Security has put up a border wall between the United States and Canada. But the NEA has plans for the wall as well, turning it into the world's largest art gallery. After the Rapture, working-class life for ?A Family of the Post-Apocalypse" is not as different as one might imagine, despite the occasional plague of biker-gang locusts. Between addiction and art is ?Ringtime," where a criminal is trapped in a recursive compulsion to visit other people's memories while he is forced to record his own for an eager audience. A Somali schoolgirl living in post-WWIII Minneapolis goes on a bloody crusade to rid her town of a familiar predator, one who might just be a monster, in ?White Man." Vivid, starkly imagined, and strikingly articulate, this disquieting collection is a journey that skillfully straddles the line between playful absurdity and pointed irony.

Who reads The Wall of America?

Author

Thomas M. Disch

Publisher

Tachyon Publications

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781892391827

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.65 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14