Intensive Care
by Janet Frame

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Book Review: Exquisite and thought-provoking
Summary: 5 Stars

The story then moves to another world, an all too believable fantasy place, hardened by the horrors of a third global war; a world that has learned well the lessons that Tom had to work out for himself a century before. It is described in the deceptively simple language of Milly, who sits under Tom's old pear tree, waiting for the eugenic exterminators to take her away.

This is not science fiction, nor is it anti-Utopian: it is a prophecy, chilling in its logic and perception, of a 'civilisation' not unlike our own, that pursues human perfection both physical and mental through elimination of the substandard and the abnormal.

The author's themes are the harshness of people and the finality of death, which are with us and must be faced. The book is at once an exquisite evocation of the loneliness of people, and a plea for the resolution of humanity - before it is too late.

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