The children of men / P.D. James.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2006, ©1992.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: 241 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0307275434
- 9780307275431
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | JAMES, P. D. | Available | 33111010892954 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." -- Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.
The inspiration for director Alfonso Cuarón's modern masterpiece of a film.
Oxford historian Theodore Faron, one of the last generation to be born into a world in which the human race has since become infertile, finds reason to hope when he is approached by Julian, a woman who, along with her band of revolutionaries, may hold the key to the future.
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