Authors: Walter Kirn
The Unbinding (14 page)
ALSO BY WALTER KIRN
My Hard Bargain: Stories
She Needed Me
Thumbsucker
Up in the Air
Mission to America
AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL, JANUARY 2007
Copyright © 2006 by Walter Kirn
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kirn, Walter, 1962–
The unbinding / by Walter Kirn.
p. cm.
“An Anchor Books original.”
“Originally published online at Slate.com.”
1. Technology—Social aspects—Fiction. 2. Information services—Fiction. 3. Electronic surveillance—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.I746U53 2007
813'.54—dc22
2006026187
eISBN: 978-0-307-27976-7
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