Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Publisher Marketing: Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemian neighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings wings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers are a set of Russian nesting dolls. Now two of the three nesting dolls, Edward and Frederick, are on his doorstep well on their way to starvation because their innermost member, George, has vanished. It appears that yet another brother, Davey, whom Alan and his other siblings killed years ago, may have returned bent on revenge. Under such circumstances it seems only reasonable for Alan to involve himself with a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city s dumpsters. But Alan s past won t leave him alone and Davey is only one of the powers gunning for him and all his friends." Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/2005 pg. 78 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1440 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) Entertainment Weekly 07/22/2005 pg. 81 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 65 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2005 pg. 266 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 03/07/2005 pg. 54 (EAN 9780765312785, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Doctorow, Cory Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the author of the "New York Times" bestselling young adult novel "Little Brother", and the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. His other YA novels include "Pirate Cinema" and "Homeland" (2013), the sequel to "Little Brother". His adult novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He has been named one of the Web's twenty-five "influencers" by "Forbes Magazine" and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.