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Literature · 2013

Bleeding Edge

Pynchon, Thomas, Thomas Pynchon

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Bleeding Edge
No reliable artwork is available, so a format-specific fallback is used.

What this is doing

Holds the urban isolation tone while stepping into a new television frame.

New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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Shift medium Band of Brothers Reroutes the urban isolation thread into television so the line keeps moving.

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New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.

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New York City, 2001. Fraud investigator Maxine Tarnow starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO and discovers there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left of the tech bubble.

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cultural longevity · regional significance · editorial selection · thematic depth
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