Land's End
Title | Land's End |
Year for Search | 1981 |
Authors | Browne, Peter Francis |
Pagination | 248 pp. |
Date Published | 1981 |
Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
Place Published | London |
ISBN Number | 0-436-07098-7 |
Keywords | Male 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. |
Holding Institutions | O |
Full Text | 1981 Browne, Peter Francis. 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. |