What are the ratings and certificates for Random Acts of Violence - 1999 Random Acts of Violence - 1999 is rated/received. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Random Acts of Senseless Violence was created in 1995-10. “If you dropped the characters from 'Nueromancer' into Womack’s Manhattan, they’d fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns” “Not since Kurt Vonnegut in his SF prime has there been a talent so iconoclastically sparkling as Womack’s” As the book progresses she changes from being a sweet middle-class child to. “Simply the coolest writer of his generation.Science fiction just doesn’t come any better than this” Random Acts is written in the form of the diary of Lola Hart, a twelve year old girl in a near-future New York City. The metamorphosis of the nice Lola Hart into the new model Lola has begun. 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. Also By Jack Womack NOVELS Ambient (1987) Terraplane (1988) Heathern (1990) Elvissey (1993) Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993) Let's Put the Future. War is breaking out on Long Island, the army boys are flamethrowing the streets, five Presidents have been assassinated in a year. She’s a nice middle-class girl on the verge of her teens who schools at the calm end of town.īut in a disintegrating New York she is a dying breed. This article analyses Jack Womacks Random Acts of Senseless Violence from the perspective of criminological research focusing on the correlation. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best.It’s just a little later than now and Lola Hart is writing her life in a diary. In this novel, "Womack's stark vision of the United States's decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own" ( Los Angeles Review of Books). Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family's attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school-but the Harts aren't alone in their troubles. It's gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola's exclusive private school. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts.
Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Now the twelve-year-old girl's once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.
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