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Pattern Recognition

By William Gibson
Series: Blue Ant
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson is a contemporary novel set in a post-9/11 world, where Cayce Pollard, a marketing consultant with an unusual sensitivity to branding, is drawn into a mysterious search for the source of enigmatic video clips circulating on the internet. Her investigation takes her across different countries, entangling her in a web of corporate intrigue and cryptic artistry, while she grapples with her personal past and cultural implications. The book explores themes of technology, globalisation, and identity.
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Pattern Recognition

Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'.

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A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thriller - GQ

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.

Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'.

Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself.

Pattern Recognition is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.

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ISBN: 9780241953532

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 255g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

William Gibson is credited with having coined the term \"cyberspace\" and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. His first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide, and Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed the trilogy. He has written six further novels about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels include Spook Country, Zero History and The Peripheral. His non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavour, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career.

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