""Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another"--Jacket."
""Nine connected stories set in a not-too-distant dystopian future in a landscape at once utterly fantastic and disturbingly familiar. The stories follow the narrator over three decades as he tries to survive in a world that is becoming increasingly savage as cataclysmic events unfold one after another"--cover."@en
"On the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, our nine-year-old narrator is fleeing the city, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown. Next he's a teenager, with a growing criminal record, taking his grandparents for a Sunday drive. In a world transformed by battles over resources, he teaches them how to steal. And whilst survival is no longer a simple matter, we see him struggle through strange, horrific - unexpectedly funny terrain, travelling from disaster site to disaster site, giving out government grants to survivors while trying to find a little love ..."