Lingua Franca

William Thacker

Description

Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016

'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often.' -- Matt Haig, author

'Remarkable.' -- Caroline Smailes, author

'This is bloody brilliant.' -- Heydon Prowse, writer of the Bafta-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised

There's a problem with Barrow, but it can be fixed. You just need to change the name to Birdseye. Birdseye-in-Furness...

Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a world in which no one will speak to him.

The founder of Lingua Franca - a naming rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor - Miles recounts the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who'll listen. Confined to his hospital bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love.

But in doing so, Miles must confront his deepest held convictions and consider, what's in a name? in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence.

Sujets

• LOVE
• Self-realization
• Crisis of Conscience
• Thrilling
• Linguistics
• Literature
• Philosophy
• Nietzschean affirmation
• Matt Haig
• CLEVER
• Political discourse analysis
• Witty (computer worm)
• SMart
• Character development
• True Love
• Full-time
• Literary fiction
• Commercialism
• Introspective
• Origin of language
• High concept
• Surreal
• Consumerism
• Speculative fiction
• Black comedy
• Screenwriter
• Morality
• Science fiction
• Politics
• Language
• Capitalism
• Commentary
• Advertising
• Controversy
• SFF
• Lingua Franca
• Dark
• Corporation
• Society
• Romance
• Sci-Fi
• Introspection
• Satire
• Humour

Informations

• Publié par: Legend Press
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785079757
• Langue: English

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