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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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The Flamethrowers On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor--a nomadic, scrappy teenager who's run away from home--sets out to join the throng of WTO demonstrators determined to shut down the city. With the proceeds, he plans to buy a plane ticket and leave Seattle forever, but it quickly becomes clear that the history-making 50,000 anti-globalization protestors--from anarchists to environmentalists to teamsters--are testing the patience of the police, and what started out as a peaceful protest is threatening to erupt into violence. Over the course of one life-altering afternoon, the fates of seven people will change forever: foremost among them police Chief Bishop, the estranged father Victor hasn't seen in three years, two protesters struggling to stay true to their non-violent principles as the day descends into chaos, two police officers in the street, and the coolly elegant financial minister from Sri Lanka whose life, as well as his country's fate, hinges on getting through the angry crowd, out of jail, and to his meeting with the President of the United States. When Chief Bishop reluctantly unleashes tear gas on the unsuspecting crowd, it seems his hopes for reconciliation with his son, as well as the future of his city, are in serious peril. In this raw and breathtaking novel, Yapa marries a deep rage with a deep humanity. In doing so he casts an unflinching eye on the nature and limits of compassion, and the heartbreaking difference between what is right and what is possible. |
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Follows seven different people, including a marijuana dealer and his estranged police chief father, who have their lives altered one afternoon in Seattle during the WTO protests that tried to shut the city down in 1999. |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 311-312). |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
World Trade Organization -- Protest movements -- Fiction.
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World Trade Organization. |
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Demonstrations -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction.
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Anti-globalization movement -- Washington (State) -- Seattle -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Anti-globalization movement. |
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Fathers and sons. |
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Protest movements. |
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Washington (State) -- Seattle. |
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Yapa, Sunil. Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist New York : A Lee Boudreaux Book/Little, Brown and Company, 2016 9780316386531 (NjBwBT)bl2015052704 (OCoLC)908701116 |
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9780316386548 : $78.00 |
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0316386545 : $78.00 |
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