PopCo

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Paperback, 448 pages

Published Aug. 1, 2005 by HarperPerennial.

ISBN:
978-1-84115-764-1
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Alice Butler has been receiving some odd messages - all anonymous, all written in code. Are they from someone at PopCo, the profit-hungry corporation she works for? Or from Alice's long-lost father? Is someone else on her trail? The solution, she is sure, will involve the code-breaking skills she learned from her grandparents and the key she's been wearing around her neck since she was ten. PopCo is a grown-up adventure of family secrets, puzzles and the power of numbers.

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reviewed PopCo by Scarlett Thomas

Review of 'PopCo' on 'Goodreads'

Very talky and idiosyncratic: the vegans in the novel smoke, so it's not like they care about making more soil available for growing food, just tobacco. Loved the puzzles and recipe, but end of novel seemed messy. Concept is terrific: wish I knew people like protagonist Alice Butler's comrades.

Subjects

  • Modern fiction
  • Fiction