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As performed by Maxine Peake (''visionary''): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer

''A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!'' Margaret Atwood
''A masterpiece of creeping dread.'' Emily St. John Mandel

This is Britain: but not as we know it.
THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.
THEY capture dissidents writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless in military sweeps, curing' these subversives of individual identity.
Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick''s They (1977) is a re

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    A Paperback / softback by Kay Dick, Carmen Maria Machado


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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 03/02/2022
      ISBN13: 9780571370863, 978-0571370863
      ISBN10: 0571370861

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      As performed by Maxine Peake (''visionary''): the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer

      ''A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!'' Margaret Atwood
      ''A masterpiece of creeping dread.'' Emily St. John Mandel

      This is Britain: but not as we know it.
      THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.
      THEY capture dissidents writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless in military sweeps, curing' these subversives of individual identity.
      Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...

      Lost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick''s They (1977) is a re

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