Automated Alice - Softcover

Noon, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552144789 ISBN 13: 9780552144780

Publisher: Corgi, 1997

Synopsis

256pages. 19x12x2cm. Broché.

About this title

Review:

Jeff Noon's previous novels, Vurt and Pollen, have attracted a cult following with their psychedelic science fiction creation of the realm of "Vurt"--a region defined by illusion, dream and drug-induced fantasy. Noon has now decided to link up with an imaginative precursor by introducing Lewis Carroll's Alice as the protagonist in a new adventure that draws on Carroll's through-the-looking-glass inversions of reality, and adds a Jeff Noon menace and edginess absent from Carroll's Wonderland. Alice finds herself in 1998 Manchester when she enters an old grandfather clock, and soon becomes the prime suspect in the puzzling "Jigsaw Murders." Noon emulates Carroll's crazy wordplay throughout, and even adds his own illustrations inspired by those of John Tenniel, the famous interpreter of Alice.

From the Publisher:

reviews
'Borges crossed with Philip Larkin on acid' Arena

'Destined for cult status...Cyberpunk at the cutting edge' Maxim

'Captures Carroll's style effortlessly...A weird Alice with a contemporary edge' Mail on Sunday

'A wild psychedelic vision...' Manchester Evening News

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0552144789
• ISBN 13: 9780552144780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256