{"product_id":"they-by-kay-dick","title":"They by Kay Dick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is Britain: but not as we know it. THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHEY capture dissidents - writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless - in military sweeps, 'curing' these subversives of individual identity. Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLost for half a century, newly introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, Kay Dick's They (1977) is a rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack: a cry from the soul against censorship, a radical celebration of non-conformity - and a warning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Delicious and sexy and downright chilling ... Read it!' Rumaan Alam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Crystalline ... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe signature of an enchantress.' Edna O'Brien\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece.' Lauren Groff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Deft, dread filled, hypnotic and hopeful. Completely got under my skin.' Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Lush, hypnotic, compulsive ... A reminder of where groupthink leads.' Eimear McBride\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A masterwork of English pastoral horror: eerie and bewitching.' Claire-Louise Bennett\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A short shocker: creepy, disturbing, distressing and highly enjoyable.' Andrew Hunter Murray\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Prophetic, chilling and a reminder from the past that we have everything to fight for in the future.' Salena Godden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!' Margaret Atwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'A masterpiece of creeping dread.' Emily St. John Mandel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback \/ 128 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42424458772695,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9780571370863.jpg?v=1645275582","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/they-by-kay-dick","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}