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100 1  Elliott, Julia,|d1968-|eauthor. 
245 14 The new and improved Romie Futch|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cJulia Elliott. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bRecorded Books, Inc.,|c2015. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by T. Ryder Smith. 
520    From the author of The Wilds, which Publishers Weekly 
       called "a brilliant combination of emotion and grime, wit 
       and horror," comes a debut novel that is part dystopian 
       satire, part Southern Gothic tall tale: a disturbing yet 
       hilarious romp through a surreal New South where 
       newfangled medical technologies change the structure of 
       the human brain and genetically modified feral animals 
       ravage the blighted landscape. Down on his luck and still 
       pining for his ex-wife, South Carolina taxidermist Romie 
       Futch spends his evenings drunkenly surfing the Internet 
       before passing out on his couch. In a last-ditch attempt 
       to pay his mortgage, he replies to an ad and becomes a 
       research subject in an experiment conducted by the Center 
       for Cybernetic Neuroscience in Atlanta, Georgia. After 
       "scientists" download hifalutin humanities disciplines 
       into their brains, Romie and his fellow guinea pigs start 
       debating the works of Foucault and hashing out the 
       intricacies of postmodern subjectivity. The enhanced 
       taxidermist, who once aspired to be an artist, returns to 
       his hometown ready to revolutionize his work and revive 
       his failed marriage. As Romie tracks down specimens for 
       his elaborate animatronic taxidermy dioramas, he develops 
       an Ahab-caliber obsession with bagging "Hogzilla," a 
       thousand-pound feral hog that has been terrorizing Hampton
       County. Cruising hog-hunting websites, he learns that this
       lab-spawned monster possesses peculiar traits. Pulled into
       an absurd and murky underworld of biotech operatives, FDA 
       agents, and environmental activists, Romie becomes 
       entangled in the enigma of Hogzilla's origins. Exploring 
       the interplay between nature and culture, biology and 
       technology, reality and art, The New and Improved Romie 
       Futch probes the mysteries of memory and consciousness, 
       offering a darkly comic yet heartfelt take on the 
       contemporary human predicament. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Taxidermists|zSouth Carolina|vFiction. 
650  0 Human experimentation in medicine|vFiction. 
651  0 South Carolina|vFiction. 
655  7 Science fiction.|2gsafd 
700 1  Smith, T. Ryder. 
710 2  hoopla digital. 
830  0 Southern voices audio. 
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