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 Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed. For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey ... If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as Shades of Grey . 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 > Science fiction, fantasy > Fantasy; 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