A Very Private Life
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A Very Private Life

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A Very Private Life

About this book

'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 divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world.

Uncumber, however, is haunted by a restless and inquisitive spirit. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring ...

'A fairy tale of the future.' Guardian

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780571329861
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. A Note on the New Edition
  6. Once upon a time…
  7. A rich childhood
  8. The facts of life
  9. What happens when you die?
  10. Animals
  11. Out
  12. And outer still
  13. Blue skin
  14. You never know who you may meet
  15. Dark glasses
  16. She won’t take her medicine
  17. She sulks while everyone is merry
  18. How it was in days gone by
  19. Waste
  20. She should advertise for someone
  21. How she consoles herself
  22. A trip to the mountains
  23. A picture of the mountaineers
  24. BUT, one day …
  25. Nek taomoro Noli …
  26. The physical transportation of the human body
  27. In the travelling house
  28. People
  29. The ancient trackways of the air
  30. In the dark
  31. To the palace
  32. Her prince appears
  33. Her first night with him
  34. Papoom
  35. A serious talk
  36. Just as her father said
  37. Another trouble
  38. Out and about
  39. Life
  40. The king strikes a blow
  41. Sisni
  42. Alone together at last
  43. A close inspection of his pate
  44. The dancing-floor
  45. A happy time
  46. That
  47. On the road
  48. The second day
  49. A moral
  50. The green men
  51. Quasil quenquenya!
  52. At last, someone who understands
  53. More fun with numbers
  54. Don’t think of this as punishment
  55. Something in the air
  56. Family reunion
  57. About the Author
  58. By the Same Author
  59. Copyright

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