With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture--politics, big science, and the media--spectacularly collide.
- ISBN10 0316010855
- ISBN13 9780316010856
- Publish Date 6 June 2005 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Little, Brown & Company
- Imprint Warner Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English