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A Very Private Life by Michael Frayn (1968) is a futuristic fairy tale that describes a young woman's futile quest to make meaningful contact with another human being.
- Michael Frayn
- 1968
Equal parts dystopian science fiction and brilliant social satire, Michael Frayn’s eerily prescient fourth novel A Very Private Life (1968) earned widespread critical acclaim and comparisons to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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- Michael Frayn
A Very Private Life is a dystopian comedy. It’s the bleak and funny future…. There are two social classes – inside people and outside people…. Insiders live in the totally insulated dwellings and never exit into the outer world – they are the rulers….
Jul 20, 2015 · Equal parts dystopian science fiction and brilliant social satire, Michael Frayn’s eerily prescient fourth novel A Very Private Life (1968) earned widespread critical acclaim and comparisons to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. This edition features a new introduction by the author. ‘A weird and frightening intensity.’. – Time.
- Michael Frayn
Nov 5, 2015 · However, Frayn's 'A Very Private Life' is not simply a forewarning about increasing artificiality of 'real' life within which humans become increasingly albeit willingly isolated. Told from an adolescent girl's point of view, Frayn astutely explores human existence and development on an effectively universal and timeless level.
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Nov 12, 2015 · A Very Private Life. 'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done . . . written with elegant simplicity.'. New Statesman Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is...
A Very Private Life. Michael Frayn. Faber & Faber, 2005 - Girls - 132 pages. A dystopian novel set in the distant future. Frayn's inquisitive heroine is smitten by love and...
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