Book Title: In Real Life
Book Series: In real life
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Young Adults,Adults
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Novel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781250144287
Item Height: 216mm
Author: Jen Wang, Cory Doctorow
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Comics
Topic: Books
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 152mm
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang (English) Paperback Book.
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends.
But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake.
From acclaimed teen author (Little Brother, For the Win) and Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow and Koko Be Good creator Jen Wang, In Real Life is a perceptive and high-stakes look at adolescence, gaming, poverty, and culture clash.
