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JESSE BALL 1st hc printing SIGNED 2019 The Divers Game
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Signed By
- Jesse Ball
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Collector Card
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780062676108
- Book Title
- Divers' Game : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Dystopian, Literary, Political
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Information
From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality--and the devastating consequences of unmitigated powerThe old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers' Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse. What is the effect of constant fear on a life, or on a culture? The Divers' Game explores the consequences of violence through two festivals, and through the dramatic and excruciating examination of a woman's final moments. Brilliantly constructed and achingly tender, The Divers' Game shatters the notion of common decency as the binding agent between individuals, forcing us to consider whether compassion is intrinsic to the human experience. With his signature empathy and ingenuity, Jesse Ball's latest work solidifies his reputation as one of contemporary fiction's most mesmerizing talents.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062676105
ISBN-13
9780062676108
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038293542
Product Key Features
Book Title
Divers' Game : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, Literary, Political
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.A596d58 2019
Reviews
Affecting... Uncomfortably familiar.... [The Divers' Game] should certainly make you question what kind of world we are preparing for the generations to come., Ball (Census, 2018), a writer of exceptional and pensive imagination, adds another trenchant fable to his distinctively disquieting oeuvre.... One hears the beat of Animal Farm.... Writing with blood-freezing sparseness, Ball illuminates this calamitously immoral place.... Distressingly mirrors aspects of our own [world]., "Jesse Ball is a writer of formal mysteriousness and neon moral clarity... His language is spare, strange, and evocative.... His themes are human savagery, often state-sanctioned, and human kindness, a thin thread of resistance.... The final section [of The Divers' Game] is breathtaking." -- The New Yorker "A book that contemplates, with the gravity and grace it deserves, a world beyond the point of no return..... Stunning.... The book's final section, in which a woman confronts the violence within herself, is one of the more beautiful things I've ever read." -- Paris Review "It's hard to read a book like 'The Divers' Game' -- in which an unnamed nation receives an influx of refugees and abandons the notion of human fellow feeling -- and not immediately think of the present moment.... [An] interlocking puzzle box of a novel, artful and often inscrutable... The society in 'The Divers' Game' uses rituals like festivals and games to paper over its own violence. They merely reveal how untenable that violence is." -- New York Times Book Review "Jesse Ball ("Census") levels a steely gaze at the very concept of humanity in this three-part novel that introduces the lower-class "quads" and the rich "pats," who treat those below them with impunity. When a group of pats conceals the grisly fate of a young quad girl behind an elaborate festival, you may start to wonder just how different this dystopian world is from our own." -- Washington Post "Affecting... Uncomfortably familiar.... [The Divers' Game] should certainly make you question what kind of world we are preparing for the generations to come." -- AM New York "Radical.... If they don't teach Ball's work in college by now, they should.... Readers who appreciate Ball's keen, melancholic, and often sadly satirical view of human society will likely appreciate this timely assessment of where division might take us and how it affects the generations that come after us." -- Kirkus Reviews "Mesmerizing... Ball (Census) delivers a strident condemnation of inequality in an imagined nation.... The novel's depiction of life in this dystopian world is eerie and suffused with symbolic weight." -- Publishers Weekly "Ball (Census, 2018), a writer of exceptional and pensive imagination, adds another trenchant fable to his distinctively disquieting oeuvre.... One hears the beat of Animal Farm.... Writing with blood-freezing sparseness, Ball illuminates this calamitously immoral place.... Distressingly mirrors aspects of our own [world]." -- Booklist, Radical.... If they don't teach Ball's work in college by now, they should.... Readers who appreciate Ball's keen, melancholic, and often sadly satirical view of human society will likely appreciate this timely assessment of where division might take us and how it affects the generations that come after us.
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2018-051083
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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