Land's End

TitleLand's End
Year for Search1981
AuthorsBrowne, Peter Francis
Pagination248 pp.
Date Published1981
PublisherSecker & Warburg
Place PublishedLondon
ISBN Number0-436-07098-7
KeywordsMale author, UK author
Annotation

Near future dystopia focusing on a dictator for life gaining control through a combination of rewards for behavior he approves and violence. Book burnings. Dissenters and anyone not white is considered a terrorist and can be killed by the police. The novel follows an average school teacher most of whose books had burned who tries to save a wounded Pakistani man whose wife and child had been killed.

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1981 Browne, Peter Francis. Land’s End. London: Secker & Warburg. 248 pp. O, PSt

Near future dystopia focusing on a dictator for life gaining control through a combination of rewards for behavior he approves and violence. Book burnings. Dissenters and anyone not white is considered a terrorist and can be killed by the police. The novel follows an average school teacher most of whose books had burned who tries to save a wounded Pakistani man whose wife and child had been killed.