02465cam a22003018i 45000010005000000030006000050050017000110080041000280100017000690200026000860200029001120400023001410500019001640820011001831000025001942450050002192500059002692600036003283000025003645201532003896500024019216500027019456500038019726500052020106500047020626550027021096550027021365542FISKH20241217112814.0180326s2018    nyu     o     000 1 eng    a  2018014855  a9781524743451 (ebook)  z9781524743444 (hardback)  aDLCbengerdacDLC  aPS3607.R43285   a813.6 1 aGreen, Hankeauthor.13aAn absolutely remarkable thing /cHank Green.  aThis edition first published in Great Britain in 2019   aLondon : bOrion Books, c2018.  a343 pages : c20 cm   a"In his much-anticipated debut novel, Hank Green--cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow--spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world--everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires--and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity, and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization; how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty; and how vilification and adoration spring from the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye"--cProvided by publisher. 0aCelebrityvFiction. 0aSocial mediavFiction. 7aFICTION / Coming of Age.2bisacsh 7aFICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure.2bisacsh 7aFICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary.2bisacsh 7aFantasy fiction2gsafd 7aScience fiction2gsafd