The Children of Men
by P.D. James
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Author: P.D. JamesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-05
ISBN: 0307279901
Number of pages: 241
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Strangely old fashioned for a story set in 2025
Summary: 3 Stars
For those readers looking for the classic P.D.James crime novel - beware (and probably best move on to other pieces of her oeuvre). This is a pre-Internet age (pre-Amazon) somewhat touchingly old-fashioned futuristic novel, very much in the tradition of Huxley and Orwell, less menacing and less disturbing than the mentioned classics, and maybe closer to a Jules Verne, as her vision of the future (projected in 1992) already today in 2000 seem comically off-target. Her language is powerfull and her ability to blow-up her characters' deficiencies through her merciless verbal magnifying glass, stripping away pretence, self-delusion, pride and decorum, is as strong as in the best of her crime novels. Her main characters, Theo and Julian, are deformed, physically and psychologically. In this thinly disguised religious parable they both find their salvation. All in all a mixed bag - fine writing, but I feel that Ms James has sadly failed in her attempt to break the confinement of being "a mere author of crime fiction".
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