Mockingbird Av Walter Tevis

<p>Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen''s Gambit.<br>''A moral tale that has elements of <b>Aldous Huxley''s Brave New World, Superman and Star Wars</b>'' LA TIMES<br><br><b>''A moving examination of people discovering the wonders of human thought and human love''</b> PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<br><br>The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It''s a world without art, reading and children, a world where people would rather burn themselves alive than endure.<br><br>Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the passion and joy that a man and woman discover in love and in books, hope even for Spofforth.<br><br>A haunting novel, reverberating with anguish but also celebrating love and the magic of a dream.</p>