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Blind Faith
by Elton, Ben
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0593058003
- ISBN 13
- 9780593058008
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
London: Bantam Press 978-0-593-05800-8 [978-0-593-05800-8] 2007, 1st edition, 1st printing. (hardcover) 320pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Black cloth boards, lettering in gold to spine. Spine slightly cocked. Shelfwear to jacket, head of spine bumped; not price clipped (showing both GBP and CAN). Rough-opened at title page; else tight, bright, and clean. "Funny as it is, it's an extremely disturbing book and readers are advised not to go anywhere crowded or to any fast-food outlet or beach for at least 24 hours after finishing it. Elton's only slightly futuristic society is horribly close to what we already have and is in some ways already indistinguishable from it." (Kerryn Goldsworthy, 2007).
Synopsis
A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb...Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this world, uniformity is everything. And even tiny defiances won't go unnoticed.Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a sex-obsessed, utterly egocentric culture. In this world, nakedness is modesty, independent thought subversive, and ignorance is wisdom. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to home?
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- Bookseller
- Spafford Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120434
- Title
- Blind Faith
- Author
- Elton, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0593058003
- ISBN 13
- 9780593058008
- Publisher
- Bantam Press 978-0-593-05800-8
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2008-07-08
- Keywords
- Literature, British Literature, Literature - English
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About Spafford Books
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- Tight
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Price Clipped
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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