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`A big new book by a big new writer. Well done! Harkaway describes the Gone-Away World in words that whiz and ping like bullets ricocheting off the walls of the reader's mind. He's the real thing.' -- Russell Hoban
`A genuine panoramic, 3D, surround-sound, total-immersion, thrill-factor ten miracle - it is the kind of book that you just don't want to end! ... Engrossing, action-packed ... Very highly recommended' -- SFRevu
`A sprawling odyssey of a novel, half swashbuckling adventure, half science-fiction, but with such engaging characters that neither genre threatens to overpower the barnstorming narrative ... Comparisons are mostly futile, but it recalls Joseph Heller - Harkaway is a deft comic writer - and parts of it can best be described as what Thackeray might produce if he were on acid' -- Observer
`A stunning debut ... By turns thrilling, silly, gripping, crazy, daring and outrageous. I loved every minute ... The Gone-Away World is brakes-off fiction' -- Scotland on Sunday
`Breathtakingly ambitious ... A bubbling cosmic stew of a book, written with such exuberant imagination that you are left breathless by its sheer ingenuity' -- Observer
`Exuberant ... Wildly inventive' -- Michael Gove, The Times
`Nick Harkaway is hot stuff. You'll need asbestos gloves for this one.'
-- Len Deighton
`There are delightful moments aplenty ... Any author who has come up with the beautifully silly plan of melding a kung-fu epic with an Iraq-war satire and a Mad Max adventure has to be worth keeping an eye on' -- Guardian
`With his debut The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway has created a fictional universe that is out of this world.' -- Tatler
`[A] post-apocalyptic triumph ... Immensely rewarding ... Genuinely terrifying' -- The Times
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`A genuine panoramic, 3D, surround-sound, total-immersion, thrill-factor ten miracle - it is the kind of book that you just don't want to end! ... Engrossing, action-packed ... Very highly recommended' -- SFRevu
`A sprawling odyssey of a novel, half swashbuckling adventure, half science-fiction, but with such engaging characters that neither genre threatens to overpower the barnstorming narrative ... Comparisons are mostly futile, but it recalls Joseph Heller - Harkaway is a deft comic writer - and parts of it can best be described as what Thackeray might produce if he were on acid' -- Observer
`A stunning debut ... By turns thrilling, silly, gripping, crazy, daring and outrageous. I loved every minute ... The Gone-Away World is brakes-off fiction' -- Scotland on Sunday
`Breathtakingly ambitious ... A bubbling cosmic stew of a book, written with such exuberant imagination that you are left breathless by its sheer ingenuity' -- Observer
`Exuberant ... Wildly inventive' -- Michael Gove, The Times
`Nick Harkaway is hot stuff. You'll need asbestos gloves for this one.'
-- Len Deighton
`There are delightful moments aplenty ... Any author who has come up with the beautifully silly plan of melding a kung-fu epic with an Iraq-war satire and a Mad Max adventure has to be worth keeping an eye on' -- Guardian
`With his debut The Gone-Away World, Nick Harkaway has created a fictional universe that is out of this world.' -- Tatler
`[A] post-apocalyptic triumph ... Immensely rewarding ... Genuinely terrifying' -- The Times
A wildly entertaining novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor (think Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut) with a stunning futuristic vision (a la A Clockwork Orange and 1984) to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship and the apocalypse.
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- PublisherWhole Story Audiobooks
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1471270106
- ISBN 13 9781471270109
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages19
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