The adventures of a young boy who is not Huck Finn. Also, a dystopian novel set in the imaginably near future, and exhibiting a roughly equal contempt for everyone's favorite utopian ideologies. Or, if that sounds a bit dense, how about a gentler, kinder sort of holocaust in which no one gets gassed and everyone gets free food and free therapy? A loving look at popular culture. A satire - cynical observations raised to a poignant art form. A book within a book - a personal history written by an ex-school teacher and self-appointed chronicler of the collapse of civilization (deceased...