The unnamed narrator lives on the Sussex Coast in an undefined future and describes life as everyone is menaced by a mysterious \“they\” who are enforcing conformity and the erasure of cultural memory by destroying books and art and killing those who resist. Anyone living alone, \“they\” see as reflecting an individualism that must be eliminated. \“They\” approve of children\’s cruelty.
}, year = {1977}, pages = {94 pp.}, month = {01/1977}, publisher = {Allan Lane}, address = {London}, isbn = {9780571370863 978-1946022288 }, note = {Rpt. London: Faber, 2022, with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. 107 pp. U.S. ed. New York: McNally Editions, 2022, with an Afterword by Lucy Scholes (103-112), parts of which originally appeared as \“A Lost Dystopian Masterpiece\” in The Paris Review (August 13, 2020). https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/08/13/a-lost-dystopian-masterpiece/ 112 pp.
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