Facial Justice
$32.31
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2014
Summary
A darkly entertaining vision of human weakness, envy and governmental interference taken to their most chilling extremes.
‘You’ll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people.’
Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed.
For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastation of the Third World War. Under the rule of the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141395067 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141395060 |
| Author: | L.P. Hartley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
An exquisitely entertaining fantasy
An exquisitely entertaining fantasy * Observer *The most exciting and exhilarating of Mr Hartley’s novels * Listener *A brilliant projection of tendencies already apparent in the post-war British welfare state … Hartley was a fine writer with a strong moral sense – Anthony BurgessHartley spares us nothing; each horrid detail of this nightmare world is expertly driven home – Peter Quennell
About The Author
L.P. Hartley
Leslie Poles Hartley was born in 1895 and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He is best known for Facial Justice, the Eustace and Hilda trilogy and The Go-Between, which won the Heinemann Foundation Prize in 1954 and whose opening sentence has become almost proverbial- ‘The past is a foreign country- they do things differently there.’ He was appointed a CBE in 1955, having won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in addition to the Heinemann. He died in 1972.
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