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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION
'Intense, beautifully crafted . . . Her talent is electric. Get
ready for a shock' Guardian This is a work of fiction. Keep telling
yourself that. America has changed. For women, it has changed for
the worse. Ro, a single high-school teacher, is desperate to become
a mother. But with IVF now illegal - along with abortion and other
reproductive rights - parenthood looks increasingly unlikely for
her. Her best friend Susan is trapped in a failing marriage with
two children, her star student Mattie is unwillingly pregnant and
Gin, an outcast offering other women natural remedies, has become
the centre of a modern-day witch-hunt. With warmth, wit and
ferocious inventiveness, Red Clocks shows us an all-too plausible
near-future: like The Handmaid's Tale, it is a call to arms, set to
become a modern classic.
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Native Tongue (Paperback)
Suzette Haden Elgin; Foreword by Leni Zumas
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R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In this dazzling premier collection, Leni Zumas shines a bright
light into the far corners of a dark, dreamlike America populated
by a cast of characters on the brink of survival. With the Gothic
style of Flannery O'Connor, the urgent lyricism of Jayne Anne
Phillips, and the quirky humor of Sam Lipsyte and George Saunders,
Zumas blends a lyrical, poetic voice with remarkably original
storytelling. A teenage boy finds his blind mother making a pass at
his new best friend; a lonely woman works in a pillow factory by
day and at night tends to a menagerie of sick animals; an aspiring
witch is disillusioned by her spiritual shortcomings; a girl from a
town so small it doesn't exist on any map runs away with a rock
band. The odds stacked against them, these lovingly rendered
outsiders find redemption in the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Zumas so skillfully intertwines the utterly fantastic with the
absolutely believable that the reader has no choice but to follow
in fascination and wonder. Even the most surreal moments take on a
surprising familiarity, and the bleakest moments are imbued with
unexpected hope. To become engrossed in Zumas's world is a strange
and beautiful delight.
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