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Byers, Sam, 1979-
Subjects
Political activists -- Fiction.
Small cities -- England -- Fiction.
Internet -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
England -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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Byers, Sam, 1979-
Political activists -- Fiction.
Small cities -- England -- Fiction.
Internet -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
England -- 21st century -- Fiction.
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Perfidious Albion / Sam Byers.
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Byers, Sam, 1979-
Faber & Faber Limited, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION
BYE
Subjects
Political activists
--
Fiction
.
Small cities
--
England
--
Fiction
.
Internet
--
Fiction
.
Interpersonal relations
--
Fiction
.
England
--
21st
century
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780571336296 (hc.)
0571336299 (hc.)
Description:
384 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in
England
, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened and is real. Fear and loathing are on the rise. Grass-roots right-wing political party '
England
Always' are fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. Just as the climate seems at its most pressured, masked men begin a series of 'disruptions', threatening to make internet histories public, asking the townspeople: 'What don't you want to share?' As tensions mount, lives begin to unravel. Jess Ellis' research into internet misogyny pushes her relationship with her over-exposed opinion columnist boyfriend Robert Townsend to breaking point. Robert's championing of the inhabitants of the threatened estate begins to erode the edges of his fragile idealism. Local '
England
Always' politician Hugo Bennington finds his twisted loyalties catching up with him. At the nearby tech park, behind the utopian rhetoric, Trina James finds that something is dangerously amiss. A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged thinkpieces; a riot of opinions. Suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it has always imagined itself to be. Things are changing. No-one is quite who they appear. The future has arrived, and it is not what anyone imagined."
--
Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Satire.
Dystopian
fiction
.
Literary
fiction
.
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