The Divers Game, Jesse Ball
The Divers Game, Jesse Ball
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The Divers' Game
A Novel

Author: Jesse Ball

Narrator: Devon Hales, Sophie Amoss, Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 4 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality—and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power.The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives. The Divers’ Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse.What is the effect of constant fear on a life, or on a culture? The Divers’ Game explores the consequences of violence through two festivals, and through the dramatic and excruciating examination of a woman’s final moments.Brilliantly constructed and achingly tender, The Divers’ Game shatters the notion of common decency as the binding agent between individuals, forcing us to consider whether compassion is intrinsic to the human experience. With his signature empathy and ingenuity, Jesse Ball’s latest work solidifies his reputation as one of contemporary fiction’s most mesmerizing talents.

About Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball is the author of fifteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike on September 12, 2019

If Jesse Ball's mind was an actual place, I'd love to travel there: I'm sure it would be spellbinding and full of weird surprises, riveting, strange and disturbing. No one writes about human cruelty and its consequences like this guy, and no one employs the enlightening power the perspective of a ki......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 19, 2019

The Divers' Game is the latest novel from Jesse Ball, the 4th of his I have read, and someone who is fast emerging as one of our most interesting modern-day writers. It looks like it’s about a very violent society that pretends it isn’t violent at all. It smells like licorice left in a hole. Source: A......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 30, 2019

I loved Census and How to Set a Fire and Why, so I had high hopes for this. Like Census, it's heavy on the metaphors - a future society in which refugees are explicitly treated as non-human and the insidious but plausible ways that approach poisons our very humanity. It's powerful conceptually, but......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 21, 2019

Thought provoking and in your face. Jesse Ball is everything 🖤 “What kind of suicide is it to kill in the world what you find in yourself?”......more