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The Heap : a Novel by Adams, Sean is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Heap : a Novel about?
“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a novel.” — Shaun Hamill, author of *A Cosmology of Monsters* Blending the dark humor of Patrick deWitt and the jagged social and techno-satire of Black Mirror, an audacious, eerily prescient debut novel that chronicles the rise and fall of a massive high-rise housing complex, and the lives it affected before—and after—its demise. Standing nearly five hundred stories tall, Los Verticalés once bustled with life and excitement. Now this marvel of modern architecture and nontraditional urban planning has collapsed into a pile of rubble known as the Heap. In exchange for digging gear, a rehabilitated bicycle, and a small living stipend, a vast community of Dig Hands removes debris, trash, and bodies from the building’s mountainous remains, which span twenty acres of unincorporated desert land. Orville Anders burrows into the bowels of the Heap to find his brother Bernard, the beloved radio DJ of Los Ver
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Adams, Sean
- Publisher
- William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062957733
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (218 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14