TY - STAND KW - Male author KW - English author AU - Keith [John Kingston] Roberts (1935-2000) AB -

Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed "anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls" (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities.

BT - Ladies From Hell C5 -

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(1935-2000)

C7 - 1979 CY - London DA - 01/1979 LA - eng N2 -

Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed "anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls" (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities.

PB - Victor Gollancz PP - London PY - 1979 SP - 13 EP - 53 T2 - Ladies From Hell TI - "Our Lady of Desperation" ER -