O-Zone
by Theroux, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/ Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0241119480
- ISBN 13
- 9780241119488
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/ Fine. A highly collectible first edition/printing, tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. Theroux's view of humanity is becoming increasingly bleak even as he stretches his reach with this novel that brilliantly depicts the world as it may become. In the not-too-distant future, America has turned into a police state and a rigidly class-obsessed, terrifyingly racist society. On the verge of anarchy, the country is fragmented into many chaotic parts. The Owners, the remnant elite who live in armed enclaves protected by fearsome security forces, feel menaced by aliensalso called Roaches, Trolls, Skells, Starkiesall those who lead desperate lives of poverty and despair. A group of eight Owners, including a near-genius adolescent, seek an adventurous thrill in a rocket trip to the forbidden area of the O-Zone, formerly the Ozarks, which has been sealed off following massive nuclear contamination. The experience changes all of them, and a second, secret voyage there has terrifying consequences. Theroux has vizualized every detail of his desolate, all-too-plausible world. His scathing social commentary is powerful and convincing; his characters, while too unappealing to win the readers' sympathy, etch themselves in the mind. This highly literate science fiction is not a pleasant book to read, but it is a significant contribution to the literature of what may be a preapocalyptic world.
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- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000008675
- Title
- O-Zone
- Author
- Theroux, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/ Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241119480
- ISBN 13
- 9780241119488
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
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Infinity Books Japan,was founded in the year 2002, we pride ourselves in being there for our customers, we deal in, used, rare, out of print and first editions.
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