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Eyelid, Paperback by Chrostowska, S. D., Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

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Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
ISBN
9781552454084

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In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people's nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive Illusion - a social media-like entity that hijacks creativity - overtakes the masses, Chevauchet, the old radical, weakens and disappears, leaving our narrator to take up Chevauchet's dictum that daydreaming is directly subversive and forge ahead on his own. In slippery, exhilarating, and erudite prose, The Eyelid revels in the camaraderie of free thinking that can only happen on the lam, aiming to rescue a species that can no longer dream. A slight but quick-witted and thoughtful philosophical parable that falls somewhere between Camus and Gaiman's Sandman universe. -Kirkus Reviews S. D. Chrostowska's The Eyelid is a brilliant, visionary satire on the digital mindscape of twenty-first-century late capitalism embodied in the new global state of Greater America. Insomnia is in; dreams are seditious; sleep is outlawed. Lulled by false fantasies projected by Artificial Intelligence (CI in the book), video games, and media collaborators, humans drug themselves to stay awake so they can slave through the now standard twenty-hour work days. Witty, oracular, Surreal, trenchant, politically astute, and often hilarious, The Eyelid is a throwback to the classics of the genre, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Butler's Erewhon. We are turning into a race of sleep-deprived automatons, Chrostowska warns, increasingly unable to mount political opposition or even dream a different future. -Douglas Glover

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Publisher
Coach House Books
ISBN-13
9781552454084
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27046621098

Product Key Features

Book Title
The Eyelid
Author
S. D. Chrostowska
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General Politics, Literature
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fantasy
Number of Pages
144 Pages

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Item Height
203mm
Item Width
127mm

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S. D. Chrostowska
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada

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