You Can Leave: a novel
Written by Laurie Calhoun
Narrated by Laurie Calhoun
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When is a suicide not a suicide? You Can Leave, a novel by Laurie Calhoun, portrays a dark, disturbing, dystopic world where dissenters are permanently silenced whenever perceived of as threats by ruthless sociopaths occupying the highest corridors of power. The narrator relays her experiences at the hands of "the new mob", a coordinated network of operatives enlisted from all walks of life on a "need to know" basis to carry out what appear to be trivial tasks for enticing sums of money. Lost in the labyrinth of an insane bureaucracy run amok, the heroine charts her path to survival using the only available means: her capacity to think. But will that be taken away from her as well?
Where Franz Kafka meets George Orwell meets Jorge Luis Borges, the world of You Can Leave is fraught with paranoia and fear but illuminated by the light of pure reason. As the targeted protagonist uses logic alone to surmount hurdle after hurdle, she leaps in and out of the frame created for her by the author, thereby forcing the reader to confront an unsettling possibility: Could this be the world in which we currently live?
Set in 1993-1994, before the ubiquity of GPS technology and cell phones, You Can Leave presages what would become the century of mass surveillance in the age of the internet.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part I: The Town
Part II: The Summer of Love
Part III: The Bunker
(Double Effect)
(The Aberrants)
(The Man Who Knew Too Much)
(Never Heard, Never Read)
Epilogue
Postscript
Laurie Calhoun
Laurie Calhoun is a philosopher and cultural critic with a special interest in film as a source of moral insight. She is the author of War and Delusion: A Critical Examination and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic’s Critique, in addition to dozens of essays on war, morality and politics.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I can’t get past the horrible recording. Please spend the extra money on professional recording this sounds like you recorders it in your closet.