Stepfather Bank [Mass Market Paperback]

David Poyer (Author)

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In the year 2110, the world has achieved perfect order, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness under the control of the Bank and its Board of Directors. The only blot on its record is self-styled poet and freeloading itinerant Monaghan Burlewthe last free man in the world. Poyer's story of one man's war against the system is first-rate satire with a serious core. For most sf collections. JC
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper (September 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312910452
• ISBN-13: 978-0312910457
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,351,962 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The bank owns the world and everyone on it except one man., July 27, 1998

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This review is from: Stepfather Bank (Hardcover)

This book explores a potential future of earth that is has been purchased by a bank. In the 120 years it takes the bank to purchase everything it institutes vast changes in the way we live our lives. We literally become indebted to the bank from the age of 18. The bank tells us where to live, whom to marry, and delivers our babies to the front door. The one person on the planet who is not indebted manages to stay alive by pulling one scam or another. When the bank tries to terminate him, society begins to pay attention to this overweight, uneducated, scruffy man and his hypnotic little poems.