My Petition for More Space

by John Hersey

Book Overview

This book chills by its glimpse of a world grown so crowded that dissent is inconceivable. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394494660
• ISBN13: 9780394494661
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

an effectively claustrophobic work

My Petition for More Space is a quiet book that effectively conveys the results of overpopulation. Hersey's greatest accomplishment in this work is the amazing creation of a claustrophobic world in which people literally cannot get away from one another. With simple, strong language, Hersey portrays this world and its suffocating influence on everyone, as seen through the eyes of the troubled yet insightful narrator. For a novel that does not feature much action, Petition packs a lot of tension and drama. My chief complaint: the ending, though darkly witty, is a bit weak. Overall, this is a short, enjoyably taut work.

Continues Hersey's fine journalistic skills. . .

in fictional form. This is what the world will be like when it is all filled up. Here are Hersey's statements about over population problems, as they were debated in the 1970's.