Hench: A Novel
(eBook)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published
HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
ISBN
9780062978592
Status
Available Online

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Format
eBook
Language
English

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Natalie Zina Walschots., & Natalie Zina Walschots|AUTHOR. (2020). Hench: A Novel . HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Natalie Zina Walschots and Natalie Zina Walschots|AUTHOR. 2020. Hench: A Novel. HarperCollins Publishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Natalie Zina Walschots and Natalie Zina Walschots|AUTHOR. Hench: A Novel HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Natalie Zina Walschots, and Natalie Zina Walschots|AUTHOR. Hench: A Novel HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Go To Grouped Work

Grouping Information

Grouped Work ID663ffa5e-30df-7800-db60-d28937a4dde1-eng
Full titlehench
Authorwalschots natalie zina
Grouping Categorybook
Last Update2024-03-27 21:55:45PM
Last Indexed2024-03-29 01:37:07AM

Book Cover Information

Image Sourcehoopla
First LoadedJan 17, 2023
Last UsedMar 6, 2024

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2020
    [artist] => Natalie Zina Walschots
    [fiction] => 1
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/hpc_9780062978592_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 12777946
    [isbn] => 9780062978592
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Hench
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 448
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Natalie Zina Walschots
                    [artistFormal] => Walschots, Natalie Zina
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Action & Adventure
            [1] => Fiction
            [2] => Science Fiction
            [3] => Superheroes
        )

    [price] => 3.19
    [id] => 12777946
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => A smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower—for good or ill—is a properly executed spreadsheet. 
 
Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn't glamorous. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? 
 
As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she's the lucky one. 
 
So, of course, then she gets laid off. 
 
With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks. 
 
Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance. 
 
It's not too long before she's employed once more, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she might just save the world. 
 
A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12777946
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => A Novel
    [publisher] => HarperCollins Publishers
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)