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    Item specifics

    Condition
    Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
    Signed
    No
    Ex Libris
    No
    Narrative Type
    Fiction
    Inscribed
    No
    Intended Audience
    Young Adults, Adults
    Edition
    First Edition
    Vintage
    Yes
    Personalize
    No
    Type
    Novel
    Era
    2010s
    Personalized
    No
    Features
    Dust Jacket, Illustrated
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    China
    ISBN
    9780385539838
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    ISBN-10
    0385539835
    ISBN-13
    9780385539838
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    208545931

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Bats of the Republic : an Illuminated Novel
    Number of Pages
    448 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2015
    Topic
    Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Literary, Action & Adventure
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Fiction
    Author
    Zachary Thomas Dodson
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.3 in
    Item Weight
    33.5 Oz
    Item Length
    9.4 in
    Item Width
    6.5 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2015-007636
    Dewey Edition
    23
    Reviews
    " Bats of the Republic  is a waking dream of America gone sideways: it's familiar, enchanting, and just pretty damned weird in the most beguiling possible ways. Zachary Thomas Dodson has made a magnificent book." -- Audrey Niffenegger "A richly textured, deeply felt, magical trove of a book." -- Patrick deWitt "Amazing. Actually amazing. Zachary Thomas Dodson has created a new form to tell his story, and in so doing, he has found a way to fuse adventure to love, weld science fiction to sorrow, and encircle everything in a winsome, mystifying experience of art, illustration, and design.  Like the living secrets its hero finds in the deep, forgotten caves of Texas,  Bats of the Republic is itself a hidden, undiscovered beauty."-- Patrick Somerville "In  Bats of the Republic , even the surprises are full of surprises."-- Amelia Gray, " Bats of the Republic  is a waking dream of America gone sideways: it's familiar, enchanting, and just pretty damned weird in the most beguiling possible ways. Zachary Thomas Dodson has made a magnificent book." -- Audrey Niffenegger "A richly textured, deeply felt, magical trove of a book." -- Patrick deWitt "Amazing. Actually amazing. Zachary Thomas Dodson has created a new form to tell his story, and in so doing, he has found a way to fuse adventure to love, weld science fiction to sorrow, and encircle everything in a winsome, mystifying experience of art, illustration, and design.  Like the living secrets its hero finds in the deep, forgotten caves of Texas,  Bats of the Republic is itself a hidden, undiscovered beauty."-- Patrick Somerville "In  Bats of the Republic , even the surprises are full of surprises."-- Amelia Gray "Spanning 300 years of an American ancestry, Dodson's ambitious literary debut combines elements of a Wild West adventure with aspects of a dystopian sci-fi thriller. By 2143, the U.S. is divided into seven city-states whose citizens fear the very government protecting them from the untamed world that lies beyond guarded walls. After his grandfather, a beloved senator, dies, Zeke Thomas earns a fledgling government title and receives a letter that disappears before he opens it. With suspicious government officials spying on him, Zeke spirals into a paranoiac frenzy after his partner loses her job and he discovers secrets about her father. In one analogous story line, among others, naturalist Zadock Thomas delivers a mysterious letter from Chicago to pre-annexed Texas, hoping to satisfy his sweetheart's father, the curator of the Museum of Flying. A designer by day, Dodson lovingly adorns his novel with diagrams, wildlife illustrations, and other ephemera, relaying the branching narratives through letters, field notes, digital transcripts, and fragments of a novel-within-a-novel. Extravagant and mesmerizing, Dodson's complex, evocative tale gradually reveals a mythos surrounding love, adventure, and the natural world ."-- Booklist "Intricately constructed and elaborately illustrated...The stories circle around and fold into each other (in one instance, literally) to delightful and dizzying effect. Dodson is a book designer, and the book is subtitled "an illuminated novel." The often elaborate design serves the story, underscoring the various narrative voices and timelines, as well as adding visual texture. It's a pleasure to get lost here, though you might be glad the author includes a few maps."-- BookPage
    Dewey Decimal
    813/.6
    Synopsis
    "Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelist's imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing." --Keith Donohue, The Washington Post Winner of Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT's 2016 Regional Design Awards Bats of the Republic is an illuminated novel of adventure, featuring hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel--an intrigue wrapped in innovative design. In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadock's future, depends on his mission. When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible... Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and the remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia. Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator. When that letter goes missing, Zeke engages a fomenting rebellion that could free him--if it doesn't destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first. As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the Republic is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love., "Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelist's imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing. " --Keith Donohue, The Washington Post Winner of Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT's 2016 Regional Design Awards Bats of the Republic is an illuminated novel of adventure, featuring hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel--an intrigue wrapped in innovative design. In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadock's future, depends on his mission. When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible... Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and the remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia. Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator. When that letter goes missing, Zeke engages a fomenting rebellion that could free him--if it doesn't destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first. As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the Republic is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love., Archetypes of the cowboy story, tropes drawn from sci-fi, love letters, diaries, confessions all abound in this relentlessly engaging tale. Dodson has quite brilliantly exposed the gears and cogs whirring in the novelist's imagination. It is a mad and beautiful thing. " --Keith Donohue, The Washington Post Winner of Best of Region for the Southwest in PRINT's 2016 Regional Design Awards Bats of the Republic is an illuminated novel of adventure, featuring hand-drawn maps and natural history illustrations, subversive pamphlets and science-fictional diagrams, and even a nineteenth-century novel-within-a-novel--an intrigue wrapped in innovative design. In 1843, fragile naturalist Zadock Thomas must leave his beloved in Chicago to deliver a secret letter to an infamous general on the front lines of the war over Texas. The fate of the volatile republic, along with Zadock's future, depends on his mission. When a cloud of bats leads him off the trail, he happens upon something impossible... Three hundred years later, the world has collapsed and the remnants of humanity cling to a strange society of paranoia. Zeke Thomas has inherited a sealed envelope from his grandfather, an esteemed senator. When that letter goes missing, Zeke engages a fomenting rebellion that could free him--if it doesn't destroy his relationship, his family legacy, and the entire republic first. As their stories overlap and history itself begins to unravel, a war in time erupts between a lost civilization, a forgotten future, and the chaos of the wild. Bats of the Republic is a masterful novel of adventure and science fiction, of elliptical history and dystopian struggle, and, at its riveting core, of love.
    LC Classification Number
    PS3604.O333B38 2015

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