EAN: 9780857526229

THE ECHO CHAMBER - JOHN BOYNE KARTONIERT (TB)

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal  glass and plastic  fashioned
into a sleek  shiny  precious object. At once  a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous
weapon in the hands of the unwary  the unwitting  the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded
life  little realising how precarious their privilege is  just one tweet away from disaster.
George  the patriarch  is a stalwart of television interviewing  a 'national treasure' (his
words)  his wife Beverley  a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like)
and their children  Nelson  Elizabeth  Achilles  various degrees of catastrophe waiting to
happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the
modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can
be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile  how outraged  how
unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. Powered by John Boyne's
characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation  The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter
a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence  poised somewhere between farce  absurdity
and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.

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