LEADER 00000nam 2200337Ka 4500 006 m d 007 cr cn--------- 008 200715s2020 nyu s 000 1 eng d 020 9780451493729 (electronic bk) 037 33ED650A-917C-429D-9CD1-62833D8AFBBB|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 TEFOD|cTEFOD 099 eBook OverDrive/Libby 100 1 Kunzru, Hari,|d1969-|eauthor. 245 10 Red pill|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|bA novel. |cHari Kunzru. 260 |c2020. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 520 "After receiving a prestigious writing fellowship in Germany, the narrator of Red Pill arrives in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee and struggles to accomplish anything at all. Instead of working on the book he has proposed to write, he takes long walks and binge-watches "Blue Lives"- -a violent cop show that becomes weirdly compelling in its bleak, Darwinian view of life--and soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all. Wannsee is a place full of ghosts: across the lake the narrator can see the villa where the Nazis planned the Final Solution, and in his walks he passes the grave of the Romantic writer Heinrich von Kleist, who killed himself after deciding that "no happiness was possible here on earth." When some friends drag him to a party where he meets Anton, the creator of "Blue Lives," the narrator begins to believe that the two of them are involved in a cosmic battle, and that Anton is "red-pilling" his viewers--turning them towards an ugly, alt-rightish worldview--ultimately forcing the narrator to wonder if he is losing his mind"-- |cProvided by publisher. 533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York :|cKnopf,|d2020. |nRequires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2309 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). 650 0 Television broadcasting|xSocial aspects|vFiction. 650 0 Television cop shows|vFiction. 650 0 Political culture|vFiction. 651 0 Berlin (Germany)|vFiction. 655 7 Psychological fiction.|2lcgft 655 7 Electronic books.|2lcgft 776 1 |cOriginal|z9780451493712 856 40 |uhttps://naperville.overdrive.com/media/5167733 |zAvailable on OverDrive/Libby. 856 42 |3Excerpt|uhttps://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=33ed650a- 917c-429d-9cd1-62833d8afbbb&.epub-sample.overdrive.com |zSample 856 42 |3Image|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/ %7B33ED650A-917C-429D-9CD1-62833D8AFBBB%7DImg100.jpg |zLarge cover image 856 42 |3Thumbnail|uhttps://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0111-1/ %7B33ED650A-917C-429D-9CD1-62833D8AFBBB%7DImg200.jpg |zThumbnail cover image