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A Very Private Life

✍ Scribed by Michael Frayn


Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
89 KB
Edition
Main
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world.

Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring ...


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