title: Parasites Like Us: A Novel
author:  Adam Johnson 
description: A fantastically twisted and terrifying first novel. (<i>Esquire</i>)<br /><br />A grim romp of a first novel... great ingenuity and bravado . . . an artifact of real ambition and originality. (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>)
zlib_text: THE PLAY IN THE SYSTEM
  
  THE ART OF PARASITICAL RESISTANCE
  
  ANNA WATKINS FISHER
  
  DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS Durham and London 2020
  
  
  © 2020 Duke University Press
  
  This work is licensed under a [Creative
  Commons](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Attribution-
  NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
  
  Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ∞
  
  Designed by Aimee C. Harrison
  
  Typeset in Minion Pro and Vectora by Copperline Book Services
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Names: Fisher, Anna Watkins, author.
  
  Title: The play in the system : the art of parasitical resistance / Anna
  Watkins Fisher.
  
  Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical
  references and index.
  
  Identifiers: LCCN 2019054723 (print) | LCCN 2019054724 (ebook)
  
  ISBN 9781478008842 (hardcover)
  
  ISBN 9781478009702 (paperback)
  
  ISBN 9781478012320 (ebook)
  
  Subjects: LCSH : Arts—Political aspects—History—21st century. | Arts and
  society