Early Riser: A Novel
de Fforde, Jasper
- Usado
- Aceptable
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- Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0670025038
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025039
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Springdale, Arkansas, United States
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Viking, 2/12/2019 12:00:01 A. hardcover. Acceptable. 0.9055 in x 9.5276 in x 6.4961 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
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El Sep 13 2018, CloggieDownunder dijo:
Early Riser is the fourteenth novel by Welsh author, Jasper Fforde. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Worthing gladly deserts his Assistant House Manager job at St Granata's Pooled Parentage Station in Cardiff when the opportunity to become a Winter Consul presents. With a bare minimum of training, he starts as the new Novice for the famous Jack Logan. With Slumberdown (for Winter) mere days away, their first assignment is, ostensibly, to deliver a Night Walker to the Hiber-Tech HQ in the often-dangerous Sector Twelve.
He's already not doing too well at this when his mentor is killed, and Charlie has to make the delivery on his own. He also intends to fulfil Logan's intention to speak to the Sector Chief Consul about the recently reported spate of viral dreams involving a blue Buick, an oak tree, boulders and grabbing hands, and ending in psychotic episodes. Accidentally(?) stranded in the Sector, Charlie wakes up to realise that he, too, has had this dream.
The world that Fforde builds is certainly different. This is Wales, but not as we know it: it gets very cold in Winter; a mere 0.01% of the population (Winter Consuls, winsomniacs, Villains, Wintervolk and the mythical Gronk) does not spend the eight months of Winter in Hibernation; everyone spends the eight weeks before Slumberdown prodigiously eating, putting on enough weight to see them through; the lucky ones get to use Morphenox which stops them spending their energy reserves by dreaming; population numbers reduce each winter because of the cold, so there is compulsory child-bearing legislation.
His fourteenth novel bears all the usual Jasper Fforde trademarks: amusing names (of people, organisations, publications, drugs); chapters prefaced by quotes from (sometimes bizarrely titled but always relevant) books, articles, press releases, a dictionary, magazines and, of course, from many of the ten editions of the Handbook of Winterology (Hodder & Stoughton); numerous footnotes that are occasionally humorous but always informative and therefore, ignored at the reader's peril.
Fforde's plot is original, as always, and there are plenty of twists and red herrings, and most of the characters are not quite what they first seem to be. There's plenty of humour, but also some thought-provoking observations about sleep and dreaming. A little bonus for those who read past the acknowledgements, are some clever fliers and posters in Fforde's latest creation. Very entertaining!
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- Librería
- Once Upon a Time Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- mon0001018462
- Título
- Early Riser: A Novel
- Autor
- Fforde, Jasper
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670025038
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025039
- Editorial
- Viking
- Fecha de publicación
- 2/12/2019 12:00:01 A
- Tamaño
- 0.9055 in x 9.5276 in x 6.4961 i
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- 1.3228 lb
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