Outage: A Journey Into Electric City

by B.W. Powe

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394221249
• ISBN13: 9780394221243
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

pinball wizard unplugged

Okay, so Mr. Powe left the narrative paradigm at the office and wrote his book at home. This odd road story has a full complement of characters who are both chillingly strange and completely recognizable. The story is at once bleak and exhilarating. In the end there is some wisdom to be had; along the way some scintillating encounters with cranks and failures the likes of whom must keep Mr. Powe up nights when he can't write himself to sleep; and throughout some fine riffs on the facts and meaning of human life in the age of information machines. Maundering? ! Give me a break. The only thing I knew for sure after reading the first reader review on this page was that its author is hurting and hungry for some positive feedback. The only thing I knew for sure after reading the next two reader reviews was that the same person had written them. So okay: you write really scathing reviews. But find some synonyms for "sophomoric."