05667cam a2200457 4500 238438993 TxAuBib 20140808120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781612192659 1612192653 B00E2RWQCC Amazon f9a5b7fc-3740-4f04-bd37-c9fcf17dab8c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 226738 1359507 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cantor, Rachel. A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide to Saving the World [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Melville House, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2209kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:"Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. Both profoundly wild and wildly profound." --Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. It's a boring job, but he likes it--there's a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house. Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesn't like it when you go off script. Meanwhile, Leonard's sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her "book club," leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts. A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you can't save the world with pizza coupons. From the Trade Paperback edition.. "Rachel Cantor joins the ranks of authors who are able to turn philosophical concepts into whiz-bang plots, and make them funny as well. Throw in some family dysfunction, time travel, a librarian ingénue, and the possible destruction of the world, and you've got an adventure story replete with nerdy delights.". HTML:Tor. "It's as if Kurt Vonnegut and Italo Calvino collaborated to write a comic book sci-fi adventure and persuaded Chagall to do the drawings. One of the freshest and mostly lively novels I have encountered for quite a while.". HTML:Jim Crace, author of Harvest and The Pesthouse. "Cantor's first novel never takes an obvious turn when a stranger one might do and the result is a plot that bounces, soap-bubble like, above a world that is equal parts absurdity and whimsy...the whole thing has the air of a fable translated from a very foreign language.". HTML:io9. "Part Italo Calvino, part Ray Bradbury, in this extraordinary novel, Rachel Cantor explores questions of self-knowledge, true love and family, all while saving the world--and winning readers--in the past, present, and future.". HTML:Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief. "In this roller-coaster debut, fast-food corporations rule the world and a peon customer-service worker has to save it... Cantor is in control of her material, and successful dystopian satire makes more sense while you're lost in it.". HTML:Heeb, Best Books of the Year. HTML:"A Highly Unlikely Scenario is a joyful book, full of the energy of undiluted invention and the thoughtful imagination of a writer to watch. It's a wild ride and much more--funny, intelligent and entirely pleasing.". HTML:A.L. Kennedy, author of Day. "Cosmic and comic, full of philosophy, mysticism and celestial whimsy. A story of listening, of souls and bodies, that is at once both profoundly wild and wildly profound.". HTML:Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. "A sharp, witty, and immensely entertaining debut... Cantor's skill in rendering complex and highly believable characters makes for an unexpectedly moving tale.". HTML:Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet. HTML:"A dystopian satire, a story about storytelling, believing and listening--A Highly Unlikely Scenario is ultimately a history of our own strange world.". HTML:New York Times Book Review. "A heroic tale unlike any other: a novel that is not about a quest but about learning that the world--our world--is full of extraordinary, mysterious wonders.". HTML:Kenyon Review. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 14:05:02. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=f9a5b7fc-3740-4f04-bd37-c9fcf17dab8c https://samples.overdrive.com/highly-unlikely-scenario?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/highly-unlikely-scenario?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/highly-unlikely-scenario?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)