Aug 03 2017
Augustus Rose

Augustus Rose

Presented by Book Passage at Book Passage, Corte Madera

The Readymade Thief

Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and living in a quiet suburb of Philadelphia with her mother and her unctuous stepfather. A fast, intense friendship with a girl at school lands Lee in trouble with the cops when she takes the fall for a drug crime. Her real troubles begin with a knife fight and a hasty escape from juvie, when suddenly she finds herself a homeless fugitive with nowhere to turn. After a harrowing few days, she finds herself being followed by a dangerous underground organization, The Société Anonyme.

A smitten young hacker named Tomi pulls her out of danger and the two become an unlikely Bonnie and Clyde. Tomi introduces her to the hidden treasures of the “Subnet” and the two spend hours together searching the underground web for traces of the S.A. Mimicking Lee and Tomi’s Subnet spelunking, Augustus Rose nimbly pulls threads of pop culture, art history, science, and mysticism into an addicting knot of connections and possible conspiracies.

With Tomi’s help, there is hope for escape. But once Lee glimpses the sinister truth behind the S.A—a shadowy cash operation using drug-fueled raves to entrap beautiful young bodies for exploitation —Lee can’t let go until she’s exposed the truth.

Augustus Rose is a novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Bolinas, and grew up there and in San Francisco. He lives in Chicago with his wife, the novelist Nami Mun and their son, and he teaches fiction writing at the University of Chicago.

Admission Info

Free admission

Phone: (415) 927-0960

Additional time info:

7:00 pm

Dates & Times

2017/08/03 - 2017/08/03

Location Info

Book Passage, Corte Madera

51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925

Parking Info

Parking lot