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    Lives Less Valuable: A Novel

    By Derrick Jensen

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    Putting corporate disregard for ecology on trial, this novel follows Vexcorp, a wealthy corporation that, at a safe distance, counts both the lives of others and the health of the environment as expenses on a balance sheet—but that distance is about to collapse. Malia is an activist who has lost faith in systemic reform, and Eddie is a street thug torn by grief at his younger sister's death. When Eddie mugs Malia, she compares him to Vexcorp, triggering a storm inside him. That storm only clears when he identifies the real agent of his pain: Larry Gordon, Vexcorp's CEO. Injury requires justice, so Eddie kidnaps Gordon and presents him to Malia for judgment. As bystanders become involved and time runs out, Malia is forced to make grueling moral decisions between survival and loyalty, safety and courage, andagency and despair.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPM Press
    Release dateOct 1, 2009
    ISBN9781604862829
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    Derrick Jensen

    Hailed as the philosopher-poet of the ecological movement, Derrick Jensen is the widely acclaimed author of Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and The Culture of Make Believe among many others. Jensen's writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader's heart” (Publishers Weekly). His books with PM include How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization, Resistance Against Empire, and the novels Songs of the Dead and Lives Less Valuable. Author, teacher, activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, he regularly stirs auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds a degree in mineral engineering physics from the Colorado School of Mines, and has taught at Eastern Washington University and Pelican Bay Prison. He lives in Crescent City, California.

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