| #1458425 in Books | 2006-07-11 | 2006-07-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.90 x.90 x5.10l, | File type: PDF | 352 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Dystopian Novel|By P. Schumacher|This novel is different from the novels of Thomson I have read.
It's narrated by the main character, Thomas Parry (Michael Micklewright before The Rearrangement), and so it doesn't contain as much of the brilliant, hallucinatory, realer-than-real description Thomson usually delivers.
But this is perfectly approp|From Publishers Weekly|Thomson's latest dystopian novel (after The Book of Revelation) begins in brilliant, unsettling fashion when a young boy is taken by government decree from his parents during the initial stages of the Rearrangement, which occurs in
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country’s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire.
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You easily download any file type for your device.Divided Kingdom | Rupert Thomson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
