Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780141395067
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 179g
RRP: £9.99
'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people . . .'
Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed.
For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastation of the Third World War. Under the rule of the Darling Dictator, citizens must wear sackcloth and ashes, and only a 17.5% quotum of personality is permitted to each. Anything that inspires envy is forbidden.
But Jael cannot suppress her rebellious spirit. Secretly, she starts to reassert the rights of the individual, and decides to hunt down the faceless Dictator.
'An exquisitely entertaining fantasy' Observer
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780141395067
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 179g
RRP: £9.99
An exquisitely entertaining fantasy
The most exciting and exhilarating of Mr Hartley's novels
A brilliant projection of tendencies already apparent in the post-war British welfare state . . . Hartley was a fine writer with a strong moral sense
Hartley spares us nothing; each horrid detail of this nightmare world is expertly driven home