A Very Private Life
A Fiction, Dystopia, Science Fiction book. Unbelievable that this was written in the 1960s. Brilliant.
A dystopian distant future novel. An inquisitive heroine, smitten by love & fuelled by angst, seeks to break free of her enclosed community to make meaningful contact with another. The protagonist, Uncumber, begins life in privileged home. She's estranged from her family by their reliance on drugs to regulate emotions & social interactions. She leaves them in order to pursue Noli, a man she falls in love with on 1st sight despite a language barrier, which inhibits any relationship with him or his family. Noli unlike Uncumber is from the...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9780571225064 / 571225063
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Unbelievable that this was written in the 1960s. Brilliant. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "A Very Private Life" is a dystopian novel--not that you'd deduce that from the beige cover, a horrible wrapper aesthetically akin to the design of most Misery Memoir jackets.The premise of the novel shares some similarities with Brave New World: the sullen... it's a small book so a nice short read, but i didn't care for the ending. here's a small synopsis: "Dystopian forecast and pure moral fable mingle brilliantly in Michael Frayn's chilling account of Uncumber's adventures as she rejects anaesthetized nirvana for the raw outside of none-too-noble savages."
