Heads We Win (Probability Sequence S.) - Softcover

Gdala, Amy

9780954291358: Heads We Win (Probability Sequence S.)

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ISBN 10: 0954291352 ISBN 13: 9780954291358

Publisher: Superscript, 2005

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A homeless woman turns up in Mid Wales with a rucksack, a nagging idea that she has lost something or someone, and the vague intention to get to Cadair Idris. On the way she encounters nothing but kindness as the local people peel back the layers of obsessive compulsive disorders to reveal an extraordinarily brave and optimistic alliance of Rastamen and Tetra mast protestors who are pitting their wits against the secret technology of an authoritarian state. The denoument rings gob-smackingly true and the reader (or "eavesdropper" as the bag lady insists) is left reeling on the sharp edge between fact and "fiction" never to see the world in quite the same way again. This is a multi-layered novel of ideas presented as a sound-track which can be read as a shamanic journey, a quest for political enlightenment, a Pinteresque "psychological drama", a post-Freudian parable, and a sharp critique of Blair's Britain.

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Review

. . . a Fahrenheit 451 for the age of the Net -- London Review of Books, August 2006

. . .an interesting and talented writer . . . a story told entirely through speech . . . -- The Guardian, March 4 2006

. . .touching as well as thought provoking. . . -- The County Times, March 3, 2006

...an interesting and talented writer -- The Guardian

...as angry sad and funny as Catch 22 -- The Time Literary Supplement

...both entertaining and...quite endearing...really did grow on
me...ideological salvos do hit home -- Planet

...genre-breaking...has been compared with Fahrenheit 451 -- Shropshire Star

...touching and thought provoking -- County Times

Genre-breaking -- Shropshire Star, April 2006

entertaining and endearing . . .really did grow on me -- Planet, August 2006