H(a)ppy /
Barker, Nicola, 1966-
H(a)ppy / Happy / - 282 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm - Goldsmiths Prize .
Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a system which both nurtures and protects. A community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. A world without fear. Could you - might you be happy there? This novel is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself. It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode. It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph - a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2017.
9781785151149 9781785151149: £20.00 1785151142
2017416059
GBB777176 bnb
018332202 Uk
Utopias--Fiction.
Technology--Fiction.
Science fiction, English
Experimental fiction.
823.914 / BAR
H(a)ppy / Happy / - 282 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm - Goldsmiths Prize .
Imagine a perfect world where everything is known, where everything is open, where there can be no doubt, no hatred, no poverty, no greed. Imagine a system which both nurtures and protects. A community which nourishes and sustains. An infinite world. A world without sickness, without death. A world without God. A world without fear. Could you - might you be happy there? This novel is a post-post apocalyptic Alice in Wonderland, a story which tells itself and then consumes itself. It's a place where language glows, where words buzz and sparkle and finally implode. It's a novel which twists and writhes with all the terrifying precision of a tiny fish in an Escher lithograph - a book where the mere telling of a story is the end of certainty.
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2017.
9781785151149 9781785151149: £20.00 1785151142
2017416059
GBB777176 bnb
018332202 Uk
Utopias--Fiction.
Technology--Fiction.
Science fiction, English
Experimental fiction.
823.914 / BAR