Divided Kingdom
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent...
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One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, working as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781400076598 (1400076595)
Publish date: July 11th 2006
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, tbr-busting-2012, autumn-2012, dystopian, sci-fi, published-2005 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Vivienne Read from September 05 to October 16, 2012 Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had ...
I'm clearly in a bad mood this week for rating books - consider this 2.5 rather than 2.This is another book which had some really solid ideas behind it but which didn't quite have enough of a story to go with. The realisation of the Divided Kingdom was fabulous and I really liked the writing, but it...
My post-apocalyptic book club selection for this month.Not actually post-apocalyptic as dystopian, Thompson's novel posits a near-future England which has been divided into four sectors, based on the four 'humors' of Hippocratic medicine. In order to describe these four areas, Thompson then has a na...
Dedication: To darling Eva, with a love that knows no boundaries.Opening quote: It was as if a curtain had fallen,hiding everything I had ever known.Jean RhysOpening: There were men in my room, and it was bright, too bright, and I was being lifted out of my bed. I didn't struggle or cry out, I didn'...
Sometimes I just can't turn my brain off. I mean, just shut up and enjoy the story already!The concept here is a good one, the United Kingdom, Great Britain, though it's never referred to as that, is drastically reorganized and divided into four separate states based on psychological profiles, which...
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