AGENCY
Jan 03, 2020
2 minutes
Jonathan Wright
RELEASED 23 JANUARY 416 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook
Author William Gibson
Publisher Viking
be trusted. Or at least, that’s what we tell children. In the fiction of William Gibson, though – and this is something his work shares with that of the late JG Ballard – what’s on the surface matters deeply. Consider the moment here where Netherton, a kind of uber-fixer’s predecessor , heads off for breakfast. He chooses a “less compulsively authentic” destination than the eatery a colleague favours. It tells you all you need to know about where he’s headed – and much about Netherton too.
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