They, Kay Dick
They, Kay Dick
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They

Author: Kay Dick

Narrator: Isabella Adomakoh Young

Unabridged: 2 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/31/2022

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—"queer, English, a masterpiece" (Hilton Als).

Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing "They" creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out.

Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick's They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.

About Kay Dick

Kay Dick (1915-2001) was the first female director of an English publishing house, promoted to the role at the age of twenty-six and mixing with what she described "a louche set" that included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stevie Smith, and Muriel Spark. From the 1940s through the '60s, she and her long-term partner, the novelist Kathleen Farrell, were at the heart of the London literary scene. She published seven novels, a study of the commedia dell'arte, and two volumes of literary interviews.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Meike

I've picked this one up because of this edition's introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, an author I really enjoy reading and whom I recently had the pleasure to interview. Her foreword is just as good as anticipated, especially her thoughts on dystopias, a genre that, as we currently see, can easily......more

Goodreads review by Blair

First published in 1977, Kay Dick’s previously neglected classic of British sci-fi is to be reissued in 2022, by Faber in the UK and McNally Editions in the US. Faber describe it as a ‘rediscovered dystopian masterpiece of art under attack’; I’d agree with the ‘masterpiece’ part, but the book’s own......more