An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to …
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An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marry Constance Oxblood and inherit the string works; he may even have enough red perception to make prefect.For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good.But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine. There, he falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect, rigidly controlled society.Curiosity—a dangerous trait to display in a society that demands total conformity—gets the better of Eddie, who beings to wonder:Why are there not enough spoons to go around?Why is everything—and everyone—barcoded?What happened to all the people who never returned from High Saffron?And why, when you begin to question the world around you, do black-and- white certainties reduce themselves to shades of grey?Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, this is the new world from the creative and comic genius of Jasper Fforde.
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Shades of Grey
EPUB, 400 pages
English language
Published Dec. 29, 2009 by Penguin.
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- 978-1-101-15965-1Copied ISBN!
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Shades of Grey
542 pages
English language
Published March 19, 2010 by Windsor Paragon.
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- 978-1-4084-8826-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 759578466
Shades of Grey
390 pages
English language
Published March 19, 2009 by Viking.
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- 978-0-670-01963-2Copied ISBN!
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- 180754951
Shades of Grey
English language
Published Aug. 26, 2011 by Penguin.
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- 978-0-14-311858-9Copied ISBN!
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- 227179688
La Tyrannie de l'arc-en-ciel
French language
Published Aug. 25, 2012 by 10/18.
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- 978-2-264-05946-8Copied ISBN!
Shades of Grey
Hardcover, 352 pages
English language
Published July 22, 2008 by Viking Adult.
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- 180754951
Shades of Grey
792 pages
English language
Published March 19, 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton.
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- 978-1-4447-3003-6Copied ISBN!
Shades of grey
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2010 by Thorndike Press.
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- 978-1-4104-2363-4Copied ISBN!
Shades of Grey
Audio CD, 12 pages
English language
Published July 22, 2008 by Penguin Audio.
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- 978-0-14-314326-0Copied ISBN!
Shades of grey
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English language
Published Jan. 6, 2011 by Hodder.
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- 656769819
Shades of Grey
English language
Published by Penguin Group USA.
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Shades of grey
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2010 by Viking.
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