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Zusatztext The heart of this novel lies with River's great-grandmother! as memories of the boyfriend who was killed by the plague and the baby brother she was forced to give up drive her to hide the XY! even at peril to herself and her family. It's that emotional core that gives Mason humanity and the reader the opportunity to care for him as a character despite his initially appearing as a one-dimensional stand-in for males everywhere. This could therefore serve as an interesting counterpart to DeStefano's Wither (BCCB 3/11) or as a primer for Margaret Atwood's adult works. Informationen zum Autor Virginia Bergin learned to roller-skate with the children of eminent physicists. She grew up in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and went on to study psychology, but ruined her own career when, dabbling in fine art at Central Saint Martins, she rediscovered creative writing. Since then she has written poetry, short stories, film and TV scripts. She has also worked in online education, creating interactive courses for The Open University. She is the author of apocalyptic YA thrillers The Rain and The Storm. She lives on a council estate in Bristol. Klappentext Welcome to the Matriarchy. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended; greed is not tolerated; the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. In two generations, the female population has grieved, pulled together and moved on, and life really is pretty good - if you're a girl. It's not so great if you're a boy, but fourteen-year-old River wouldn't know that. Until she met Mason, she thought they were extinct. Set in the near future, this funny, edgy YA novel by the bestselling author of The Rain asks the question: what would a world with no men be like? Zusammenfassung Set in the near future, this funny, edgy YA novel by the bestselling author of The Rain asks the question: what would a world with no men be like?...
