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They : a sequence of unease / Kay Dick ; with a new foreword by Carmen Maria Machado.

Dick, Kay, (author.).

Summary:

"Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgotten, Kay Dick's They follows a nameless, genderless narrator living along the lush but decimated English coast, where a loose cohort of cultural refugees live meditative, artistic, often polyamorous lives. But this rustic tranquility is punctuated by bursts of menace as they must continually flee a faceless oppressor, an organization known only as "They," whose supporters range the countryside in a grisly mob of mostly mute, quasi-automatons. Moving in slow but deliberate concentric circles, "They" root out free-thinking subversives: the surviving artists, craftspeople, intellectuals, even the unmarried and the childless. As Dick unveils in ominous fragments, "They" are not affiliated with a dystopic totalitarian state, "They" are an unsanctioned multitude, the strength of which appears to lie not in official mandates, but rather in the swell of their ever-increasing numbers. An electrifying literary artefact--a lost dystopian masterpiece and overlooked queer classic--They returns to print in this special international publication brimming with contemporary resonance."-- Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781039002289 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 107 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
Subject: Dystopias > Fiction.
Mobs > Ficiton.
Sussex (England) > Fiction.

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