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Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Pharmacology
Christopher Herz
1993. San Francisco. The digital and pharmaceutical industries are booming. They're looking for the young, the hip, and those on the counterculture fringe to be both the face and consumer of their new world order. Recruited by an advertising agency focused on targeting a new drug to her own age demographic, Sarah Striker is grateful for the steady income, but she begins to question the side effects of the products she's pushing.A kinetic, hyper-stylized jolt of pure energy, Herz delivers a strong follow-up to his debut novel, The Last Block in Harlem. Full of vibrant characters and razor-sharp dialogue, Pharmacology captures the voice of the Internet generation with style, heart, and soul.
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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
Pharmacology review by PWak_RPEMS
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This book is about a girl named Sarah Striker who moves to San Francisco in 1993 in search of a job to help pay her dad's bills. The  digital age is beginning and pharmaceutical companies are developing new medications like no tomorrow. There are people on the streets picking up human test subjects for the new drugs. She becomes interested in why the companies need human test subjects. She wants to write about it for a magazine. Sarah goes undercover at a pharmaceutical company to try to find out what is going on. She gets a job in their advertising department.

Rating:
4
Content Rating:

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