Critical Acclaim for the Award-winning Work of C. J. Hopkins
"A brilliant (and hilarious) critique of the emptiness of American life and the meaninglessness of the popular culture that attempts to fill the void." —Toronto Globe & Mail
"A blistering revelation . . . Hopkins' body of work owes a huge debt to the absurdists and so manages to blast beyond the merely political or allegorical to the existential."—Time Out New York
"Sharp, brilliant, intense, fast-moving, made for the moment we live in . . .a portrait of a culture caught in a strange and painful paradox between progressive and reactionary attitudes."—The Scotsman, Edinburgh
"A feral Ferris wheel of comedy, confusion, contradiction, obfuscation and bent-out-of-shape straight talking that leaps out of the room at you and harnesses you to its mischievous mindset."—Metro, UK
"America's relationship with consumerism and the media is unerringly skewered."—The Times, London
"Hilariously at odds with the mainstream, and much bigger and deeper than the sum of its apparent parts."—The Herald, Scotland
"Stimulating and thought-provoking . . . a welcome addition to the canon of all things absurd and beautiful."—The List, Edinburgh
"A gripping satire, which spills into sinister weirdness."—Die Tageszeitung, Berlin
Description
A darkly comic dystopian satire about being human—all too human.
In a post-catastrophic dystopian future—peaceful, prosperous, and corporate-controlled—non-conformity is a diagnosable disorder, and the human race is being genetically "corrected" to establish peace on Earth.
However, Taylor, a Class 3 Anti-Social Person confined to Quarantine Zone 23, and Valentina, a Variant-Positive Normal from the upscale Residential Communities, have other plans for their future. Their rebellion against the forces of Normality is a hilarious, heartbreaking affirmation of the anarchic human spirit and a defiant departure from the norms of both the genre sci-fi and literary novel.
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