(P/B) RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE

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It’s just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. She’s a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.
A normal, happy, girl.
But in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. War is breaking out on Long Island, the army boys are flamethrowing the streets, five Presidents have been assassinated in a year. No one notices any more. Soon Lola and her family must move over to the Lower East side - Loisaida - to the Pit and the new language of violence of the streets.
The metamorphosis of the nice Lola Hart into the new model Lola has begun...
Random Acts of Senseless Violence is, in Cory Doctorow's words, an 'underappreciated masterpiece', and Jo Walton calls it 'a book that's brilliant and ought to have been seminal, a book that clearly should have set the world alight'. High praise indeed from two such talented authors. And if that's still not enough to tempt you to try it, maybe this last word from William Gibson might...