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 Shades of Grey Signed 1st US edition with card: $45 |
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What if everything about your life and the society you live in were dictated by which portions of the spectrum you could see? As measured in a foolproof test administered by the most revered authority in your world? This is the central focus of Jasper Fforde’s exceptional new novel, Shades of Grey. In a society several removes from our own and about 600 years into the future, everyone is calmly and politely living out the lives dictated by the Word of Munsell, or almost everyone. The preferred mode is Stasis; the Previous is inexplicable and uninteresting to most of the population. Odd remnants of the world as we know it survive, although in wildly different forms: Friending has become a powerful social force and feedback ratings fuel status and behavior cues; technology LeapBacks and governmental DeFacting are offset by Loopholery and Standard Variables as people endeavor to interpret the Rules; spoons are a precious commodity; and no one can see the Apocryphal Man. |
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Recommending Fforde’s novels is a bookseller’s dilemma. You can go on about literature-as-technology in popular culture in his Thursday Next series, which kicks off with The Eyre Affair, where you can also build a Dodo from a Home-Cloning Kit and the Cat Formerly Known As Cheshire routinely makes cameo appearances. Or you can tackle the Nursery Crimes Division series (beginning with The Big Over Easy), which addresses such timeless questions as Humpty Dumpty – Did he fall or was he pushed? or the Thermodynamics of Porridge and why the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears merits further investigation. You sound like you’ve stepped off the curb. |
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Signed 1st edition with card: $300.00