H(a)ppy /
By: Barker, Nicola [author.].
Series: Goldsmiths Prize. Publisher: London : William Heinemann, 2017Description: 282 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781785151149; 9781785151149:; 1785151142.Other title: Happy.Subject(s): Utopias -- Fiction | Technology -- Fiction | Science fiction, English
Genre/Form: Experimental fiction.DDC classification: 823.914 Awards: Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2017.Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Standard Loan
|
ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 823.914 BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0063222 |
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.