Author: BOORMAN, JOHN (WITH BILL STAIR)
Title: Zardoz
Description: New York, NY: Signet, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. B&W Photographs; This is a mass market paperback book. Signet book Q5830, with a price of .95 cents. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The book covers have some lightish fading to the spine and spine joints, and there is a spot of rubbing to the top rear cover of the book. The rear cover also has several stickers that look to be from some sort of military toy. The text pages are mostly clean and bright , but have some light generalized toning. Included are several pages of black and white photographs from the movie. "Zardoz is a 1974 Irish-American-British science fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman and starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling, and featuring Sara Kestelman. The film was shot by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth on a budget of US$1.57 million. It depicts a post-apocalyptic world (which Boorman says, in the audio commentary, is matriarchal) where barbarians (the "Brutals") worship "Zardoz", a stone god with the power to grant either death or eternal life, and who - in the opening scene - declares: "The gun is good! The penis is evil!". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy John Boorman Zardoz Evil Sean Connery Distopian Fiction


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