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FACIAL JUSTICE
L. P. Hartley
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Description for FACIAL JUSTICE
Paperback. 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. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
'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 Darling Dictator, citizens must wear sackcloth and ashes, and only a 17.5% quotum of personality is permitted to each. Anything that inspires envy is forbidden.
But Jael cannot ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141395067
SKU
V9780141395067
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99-25
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for FACIAL JUSTICE
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 Burgess Hartley spares us nothing; each horrid detail of this nightmare world is ... Read more
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 Burgess Hartley spares us nothing; each horrid detail of this nightmare world is ... Read more