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Genre/Form: | Fictional Work Science fiction Dystopian fiction Bildungsromans Fiction Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edgar Pangborn |
ISBN: | 1882968301 9781882968305 |
OCLC Number: | 57312837 |
Notes: | Originally published in 1964. |
Description: | 287 pages ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Edgar Pangborn. |
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Coming of age in a dystopia
Pangborn's Davy is a classic work of its time, reflecting the building angst and restlessness of a new generation, one that, unlike its immediate predecessors, had social and political ideals and did not accept the status quo of its parents and grandparents. The novel can be read...
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Pangborn's Davy is a classic work of its time, reflecting the building angst and restlessness of a new generation, one that, unlike its immediate predecessors, had social and political ideals and did not accept the status quo of its parents and grandparents. The novel can be read as a commentary on the society of the post-war age, and Davy is as much a young man of the "love generation" as he is of his own time, hundreds of years in the future. His experiences and conclusions continue to ring true even now, half a century after the book was written. Probably Pangborn's great masterpiece, the book was a cult classic when new, passed among teens and college students along with The Harrad Experiment (Robert H. Rimmer) and of course, Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein.) Recommended reading for all generations.
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