The Transition: Luke Kennard This debut fiction from a well seasoned poet will unsettle and disturb. For any ‘Black Mirror’ fans out there the horrors are clear, for any landlords it could read like a positive manifesto. Justine Jordan reviews it for the Guardian: “We’re in Britain, a few years from now: driverless cars and self-stocking fridges are a reality, but the housing crisis has only got worse. Like most thirtysomethings, ‘middle-class underachiever’ Karl and his wife, Genevieve, find that their rent always outstrips their earnings, even though their living space is a wallpapered conservatory in a shared house. Credit‑card juggling and a spot of last‑ditch online fraud land Karl in trouble, but instead of prison, he and Genevieve are offered a place on The Transition: a six‑month hiatus during which they will live with an older, more successful couple, learn from them about all that boring adult stuff like self-reliance, financial planning and dental hygiene, and save up enough money for a starter rabbit hutch on the bad side of town. […] In the grimly impoverished world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, real coffee is only for the elite. In Kennard’s vision of social control, flat whites are constantly on tap, although they cost more than the baristas serving them make in an hour: even dystopias are gentrified these days. His dissection of the way contemporary capitalism harnesses every response to it, using rebellion and dissent as fuel for expansion, is all the more chilling for its aspirational flourishes.” Read the full review here: http://bit.ly/2mlTneA
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The Transition: Luke Kennard
This debut fiction from a well seasoned poet will unsettle and disturb. For any ‘Black Mirror’ fans out there the horrors are clear, for any landlords it could read like a positive manifesto. Justine Jordan reviews it for the Guardian: “We’re in Britain, a few years from now: driverless cars and self-stocking fridges are a reality, but the housing crisis has only got worse. Like most thirtysomethings, ‘middle-class underachiever’ Karl and his wife, Genevieve, find that their rent always outstrips their earnings, even though their living space is a wallpapered conservatory in a shared house. Credit‑card juggling and a spot of last‑ditch online fraud land Karl in trouble, but instead of prison, he and Genevieve are offered a place on The Transition: a six‑month hiatus during which they will live with an older, more successful couple, learn from them about all that boring adult stuff like self-reliance, financial planning and dental hygiene, and save up enough money for a starter rabbit hutch on the bad side of town.
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In the grimly impoverished world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, real coffee is only for the elite. In Kennard’s vision of social control, flat whites are constantly on tap, although they cost more than the baristas serving them make in an hour: even dystopias are gentrified these days. His dissection of the way contemporary capitalism harnesses every response to it, using rebellion and dissent as fuel for expansion, is all the more chilling for its aspirational flourishes.”
Read the full review here: http://bit.ly/2mlTneA
#libreriarecommends #libtriptych #libreria #thetransition #lukekennard
The Transition: Luke Kennard
This debut fiction from a well seasoned poet will unsettle and disturb. For any ‘Black Mirror’ fans out there the horrors are clear, for any landlords it could read like a positive manifesto. Justine Jordan reviews it for the Guardian: “We’re in Britain, a few years from now: driverless cars and self-stocking fridges are a reality, but the housing crisis has only got worse. Like most thirtysomethings, ‘middle-class underachiever’ Karl and his wife, Genevieve, find that their rent always outstrips their earnings, even though their living space is a wallpapered conservatory in a shared house. Credit‑card juggling and a spot of last‑ditch online fraud land Karl in trouble, but instead of prison, he and Genevieve are offered a place on The Transition: a six‑month hiatus during which they will live with an older, more successful couple, learn from them about all that boring adult stuff like self-reliance, financial planning and dental hygiene, and save up enough money for a starter rabbit hutch on the bad side of town.
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In the grimly impoverished world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, real coffee is only for the elite. In Kennard’s vision of social control, flat whites are constantly on tap, although they cost more than the baristas serving them make in an hour: even dystopias are gentrified these days. His dissection of the way contemporary capitalism harnesses every response to it, using rebellion and dissent as fuel for expansion, is all the more chilling for its aspirational flourishes.”
Read the full review here: http://bit.ly/2mlTneA
#libreriarecommends #libtriptych #libreria #thetransition #lukekennard