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.
C6 -The lesbian author 1915-2001) was born in England, raised in Switzerland and England, and then lived in England.
C7 - 1977 CY - London DA - 01/1977 LA - eng N1 -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.
N2 -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.
PB - Allan Lane PP - London PY - 1977 RN -The last chapter, “Hallo Love,” was published separately in 1975.
Her papers are held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
SN - 9780571370863 978-1946022288 EP - 94 pp. TI - They: A Sequence of Unease ER -