The Last
Book Ever Written
by Jonah Kruvant
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BLURB:
In a futuristic American society where all citizens
have computerized chips in their brains and insert needles into their veins to
enter a virtual reality, Victor Vale leads a fairly typical life. He is an officer of the law with greater
ambitions, a family man, and a dutiful citizen of the Nation. Yet when The Chief assigns him a case to go
undercover and expose a community of illegal “creators,” Victor finds himself
strangely compelled to creative writing.
For the first time, he starts to question the world around him, and
becomes involved in a web of lies, uncertain of whom to trust, and unable to
distinguish between virtualism and reality.
As he searches for answers, Victor slowly begins to unravel hidden
truths about the world, and even uncovers an astonishing secret from his own
past.
In order to prove to the “creators” that he is
genuine, Victor writes a manuscript, at great risk to his wife and son. When books are banned and ultimately
destroyed, Victor realizes that his book alone has survived. Only then does the reader come to a startling
realization in a unique narrative twist.
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EXCERPT:
Not long
after the Cleansing Act, I was promoted to Detective. I was thirty-four. I had
a wife and child to support. A career to pursue. My son wanted things, my wife
wanted things; hell, I wanted things. I had worked on the force for thirteen
years and it was time I got my detective badge.
That was
all I could see back then. I didn’t care about creators.
Then I
was assigned to the case. But even before I stepped into the Chief’s office,
events began taking shape that marked both the beginning and the end of a new
chapter in my life. It was on my way to the police station, wading through the
unbearable stench of the dirty human flesh of the Slums, that I began to
question things, what I thought I knew about the world … and about myself.
So this
is where I start my story. This is where I begin my book.
That day,
for whatever reason, I felt conscious of my surroundings. The beggars were
pushing each other out of the way to get under awnings and balconies of
restaurants and apartments as it started to rain. The restaurants were filled
with shattered glass, moldy kitchens. The strongest beggars lived in cramped
apartments with cockroaches and termites. The ones that couldn’t find shelter
that morning just lay there, shivering from the cold. Some would let raindrops
fall from the sky into their open mouths. Two naïve children were chasing each
other around bodies and
giggling,
cleaning dirt out of each other’s hair. The bright lights of the skyscrapers,
the swiftness of the skytrain, the convenience of the airpath—all a beggar had
to do was look up and he would find himself in a fantastical world of dreams.
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AUTHOR Bio:
A writer, teacher and student of the world, JONAH
KRUVANT received his BA from Skidmore, his teaching degree from Fordham and an
MFA from Goddard College. Jonah lives in New York City. He is the author of The
Last Book Ever Written.
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