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U.S.!: Songs and Stories

by Chris Bachelder · 2006

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Chris Bachelder brings Upton Sinclair back from the dead to see what he might make of our modern world. U.S.! is a playful, darkly comic novel that imagines the serial resurrection and assassination of tireless muckraker Upton Sinclair. In Chris Bachelder's bizarre world, Sinclair is repeatedly brought back by beleaguered but optimistic leftists, and then gunned down (and once harpooned!) by those seeking fame, fortune, and American business as usual.

Genre
humorhumorMore like thisLess of thisliterary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of this
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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of this
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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult

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