The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child
Title | The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child |
Year for Search | 1960 |
Authors | Hersey, John [Richard](1914-93) |
Date Published | 1960 |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Dystopia concerned with a corporate attempt to establish a pool of pliant brain power by purchasing children when very young and conditioning them to solve complex problems. The conditioning includes complete isolation, emptying the mind of all knowledge and emotion, feeding it the data need to solve the problems, and eliminating all the senses except a limited sense of touch. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1961. U.K. ed. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961. A play was written by Paul Shyre, The Child Buyer: A Drama in Three Acts Adapted from the Novel by John Hersey. London: Samuel French, 1962. It was first performed May 3, 1962, by The Theatre Group at UCLA and had a brief run in New York in 1969-70. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | (1914-93) |
Full Text | 1960 Hersey, John [Richard] (1914-93). The Child Buyer: A Novel in the Form of Hearings Before the Standing Committee on Education, Welfare, & Public Morality of a certain State Senate, Investigating the conspiracy of Mr. Wissey Jones, with others, to Purchase a Male Child. Dystopia concerned with a corporate attempt to establish a pool of pliant brain power by purchasing children when very young and conditioning them to solve complex problems. The conditioning includes complete isolation, emptying the mind of all knowledge and emotion, feeding it the data need to solve the problems, and eliminating all the senses except a limited sense of touch. The author is best-known for his book Hiroshima (1946). |