by WalterTevis (Author)
The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 1
Publisher: Gateway
Published: 14 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 0575079150
ISBN 13: 9780575079151
Book Overview: Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth, both memorably filmed