Author: NICHOLSON, WILLIAM
Title: Society of Others, the
Description: Anchor Canada, 2006. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0385660855. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Disconnected from his family--and the world at large--a nameless teenager leaves his London home and hitches a ride with a portly truck driver who ponders philosophy to pass the time. Their lives take a tragic turn at the checkpoint of a totalitarian state, where terrorists murder the driver and set fire to his cargo (a stash of books titled The Society of Others, penned by a freethinker named Vicino). Armed with a mysterious "list" and a single Vicino volume salvaged from the wreckage, the young narrator seeks temporary refuge with a quartet of dubious dissidents who "fight torture with poetry" but leave guns "lying about like other people leave umbrellas." ; 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 224 pages. New with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385660855 Hitchhiking Young Men Fiction Europe
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Title: Society of Others, the
Description: Anchor Canada, 2006. Trade Paperback. ISBN: 0385660855. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Disconnected from his family--and the world at large--a nameless teenager leaves his London home and hitches a ride with a portly truck driver who ponders philosophy to pass the time. Their lives take a tragic turn at the checkpoint of a totalitarian state, where terrorists murder the driver and set fire to his cargo (a stash of books titled The Society of Others, penned by a freethinker named Vicino). Armed with a mysterious "list" and a single Vicino volume salvaged from the wreckage, the young narrator seeks temporary refuge with a quartet of dubious dissidents who "fight torture with poetry" but leave guns "lying about like other people leave umbrellas." ; 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 224 pages. New with no dust jacket .
Keywords: 0385660855 Hitchhiking Young Men Fiction Europe
Price: US$ 15.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 9467
- Book number: 9467
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