Molly Zero

by Keith Roberts

Book Overview

In an England two hundred years hence all children are brought up in single sex creches: the Blocks. Molly Zero, young and intelligent, resilient and loving, is a product of the Blocks and is destined... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880448629
• ISBN13: 9781880448625
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Borgo Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

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This book is one of the oddest I have ever read. It qualifies as science-fiction in only the broadest sense of the word. The sub-genre of apocalyptic future fiction would be a much more apt category for it.The entire narrative is written in secon-person, as in "You are walking... you stand up." The narrator (you) is a young girl being raised in an institutional enviornment meant to foster her for a career within the society's elite ranks. When she runs away, the book take off in a spiraling Alice in Wonderlandesque journey that carries you thorough a society whose rules are as vague as its inhabitants.The most thrilling aspect of this book is its novel narrative structure that will cause its reader to re-evaluate entirely the way one reads any book hereafter. Highly recommended!