MOCKINGBIRD PB – WALTER TEVIS

Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen s Gambit. A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley s Brave New World, Superman and Star Wars LA TIMES A moving examination of people discovering the wonders of human thought and human love PUBLISHERS WEEKLY The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It s a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure. Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have – to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth. A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.