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All alone: an idiot boy, a runaway girl, a severely retarded baby, and twin girls with a vocabulary of two words between them. Yet once they are mysteriously drawn together this collection of misfits becomes something very, very different from the rest of humanity. This intensely written and moviContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 192 Pages
- Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
- ISBN-10: 0375703713
- ISBN-13: 9780375703713
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Dec 29, 1998
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Beautifully lyrical speculation on future humanity
I used to work with people with mental handicap and mental illness and through this connection happened to hear about this book by Sturgeon years ago but never got round to getting hold of it: I was very pleased therefore to discover last year that it had been re-issued as part of the SF Masterworks ... (continue)
I used to work with people with mental handicap and mental illness and through this connection happened to hear about this book by Sturgeon years ago but never got round to getting hold of it: I was very pleased therefore to discover last year that it had been re-issued as part of the SF Masterworks series.
I have to admit that it's hard-going at first: the initial protagonist's viewpoint feels like an amalgam of concurrent perspectives, leaving the reader uncertain as to who is speaking. But the narrative soon picks up, despite some somewhat cliched set pieces at the beginning.
This is a book of which I can say, I like the idea of it, I like the way it is done, and I like that Sturgeon himself intended his writing to be about, as someone else has described it: "affirmations of love and human possibility."
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