Featured Book: Shades of Grey Jasper Fforde US release date December 29
You can find this book on Amazon by cutting and pasting this link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670019631?ie=UTF8&tag=allencotrip-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0670019631
Here's the Scoop:
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next—a brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see
Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color—but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means.
Eddie's world wasn't always like this. There's evidence of a never-discussed disaster and now, many years later, technology is poor, news sporadic, the notion of change abhorrent, and nighttime is terrifying: no one can see in the dark. Everyone abides by a bizarre regime of rules and regulations, a system of merits and demerits, where punishment can result in permanent expulsion.
Eddie, who works for the Color Control Agency, might well have lived out his rose-tinted life without a hitch. But that changes when he becomes smitten with Jane, a Grey Nightseer from the dark, unlit side of the village. She shows Eddie that all is not well with the world he thinks is just and good. Together, they engage in dangerous revolutionary talk.
Stunningly imaginative, very funny, tightly plotted, and with sly satirical digs at our own society, this novel is for those who loved Thursday Next but want to be transported somewhere equally wild, only darker; a world where the black and white of moral standpoints have been reduced to shades of grey.
Fforde maitains a great website at:
http://jasperfforde.com/
I also hear he is terrific at book signing events, and the schedule is:
4th January 02010 to 17th January 02010
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey.
This is to be confirmed - rough schedule just announced - CHECK HIS WEBSITE FOR UPDATES, more dates to follow.
Mon Jan 4th - BARNES & NOBLE, Lincoln Centre, NY - 7.30pm
Tue Jan 5th - PARTNERS & CRIME, Greenwich Ave, NY - 7pm
Wed Jan 6th - BORDERS, Rochester Hills, MI - 7pm
Thur Jan 7th - BARNES & NOBLE, Skokie, Chicago, IL - 7.30pm
Fri Jan 8th - THIRD PLACE BOOKS, Lake Forest Park, WA - 6.30pm
Sat Jan 9th - M IS FOR MYSTERY, San Mateo, CA - 2pm
Sat Jan 9th - CAPITOLA BOOK CAFE, Capitola, CA - 5.30pm
Mon Jan 11th - VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE, @All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA - TBA
Tue Jan 12th - BORDERS BOOKS & MUSIC, Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA - 7pm
Wed Jan 13th - BOOKWORKS, Albuquerque, NM - TBA
Thur Jan 14th - BOOKS & BOOKS, Coral Gables, FL - 8pm
Fri Jan 15th - BARNES & NOBLE, Buckhead Atlanta, GA - 7.30pm
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