Kill the mall
Book |
Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Toronto :
2021.
- 4 of 4 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Diamond Trail | FIC Malla | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Fleming - Beamsville | FIC Malla | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Grimsby | Fic Mal | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
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About
After writing a letter in praise of "the mall," our eccentric narrator is offered a "residency" at a shabby local shopping centre. His mission: to occupy an abandoned storefront for twelve weeks, during which he must split his time between "making work" and "engaging with the public," all the while chronicling his efforts in weekly progress reports. He quickly becomes part of mall society-- bonding with the mall's kindly caretaker, the band of greasy teens working in the derelict food court and the occasional elderly or otherwise transient mall patrons, most of whom treat its hallowed halls as little more than a thoroughfare. But soon a series of disturbing anomalies during the mall's after hours, including the disappearance of our narrator's closest new mall-friend-- a bright-eyed, ponytailed, blue-jeans salesclerk named Dennis-- sets our hero on a quixotic quest to untangle the mystery, only to discover an invisible evil lurking deep within the bowels of the mall. Before long things get hairy, and our narrator's optimism over his mall residency descends into a phantasmagoria of horror and (possibly) murder. With the aid of the caretaker and a wise pony (named, of course, Gary) who roams the halls, it dawns on our narrator that the mall may not in fact be a utopian hub of consumer bliss, but something more sinister. And who is pulling the strings in the mall's unmapped subterranean world? This madcap satiric horror-fantasy is a deceptively cutting critique of capitalism as embodied in one of our saddest capitalist inventions: the fading local mall.
Details
- ISBN: 9780735273498
- ISBN: 0735273499
- Physical Description: 241 pages ; 21 cmprint
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2021.
- General Note: LSC 25.00