life as seen and experienced by a young man named Beuaregard in late 21 st century US city on east coast ravaged by a nuclear bomb about 5 yrs prior. this community and the wider world are coming apart . Society is heavily surveilled by the government , disintegrating socially, economically , crime is run amok, the ground emits radioactive heat and climate change from above. the government has a terrible dirty secret that Beauregard finds out the hard way when it directly affects his mother. he Beauregard, unwittingly participates in this dehumanizing government program to thin the ranks of the elderly, which is the final straw, leading him to fight back against the machine.
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