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Mockingbird

✍ Scribed by Tevis, Walter

Book ID: 100667927
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 152 KB
Category: Fiction
City: München RosettaBooks 2018
ISBN: 079534290X

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✦ Synopsis

**A sci-fi masterpiece: "**A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World , Superman , and Star Wars " (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou are a man and a woman whose passion for each other sparks a jealousy in Spofforth--and provides the only hope for the future of human beings on earth.

Walter Tevis, author of The Hustler , The Man Who Fell to Earth , and The Color of Money , delivers an elegiac dystopia of...

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