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Authors: Walter Kirn

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AN ANCHOR BOOKS ORIGINAL, JANUARY 2007

Copyright © 2006 by Walter Kirn

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kirn, Walter, 1962–

The unbinding / by Walter Kirn.

p. cm.

“An Anchor Books original.”

“Originally published online at Slate.com.”

1. Technology—Social aspects—Fiction. 2. Information services—Fiction. 3. Electronic surveillance—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.I746U53 2007

813'.54—dc22

2006026187

www.anchorbooks.com

eISBN: 978-0-307-27976-7

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