Shades of Grey

Zusatztext 'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness! wit! complexity! erudition! unexpectedness and originality of the works! nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' Informationen zum Autor Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing , and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde. Klappentext The paperback edition of Jasper Fforde's Orwellian/Douglas Adamsian novel set hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, where the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. 'Full of brilliantly inventive wordplay and quirky fabrications' "Mail on Sunday" 'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted...and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett' "Independent" Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde. Zusammenfassung Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde.

Product details

• Authors: Jasper Fforde, Fforde Jasper
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780340963050
• ISBN: 978-0-340-96305-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Eddie Russett; Eddie Russett
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Kriminalromane und Mystery, Fantasy, Fantasyliteratur, Abenteuerromane, FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Fantasy, Englische Belletristik / Fantasy, FICTION / Absurdist, future; adventure; social hierarchy; love; colour; jasper fforde; early riser; comic fantasy; terry pratchett; the eyre affair; best fantasy books; best fantasy reads; douglas adams; brave new world; 1984; nineteen eighty-four; george orwell; dystopi, Modern & contemporary fiction