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Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde (2024, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSOHO Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101641296283

ISBN-139781641296281

eBay Product ID (ePID)15063193231

Product Key Features

Book TitleRed Side Story

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicFantasy / Humorous, Dystopian, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorJasper Fforde

Book SeriesShades of Grey Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight27.9 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-056130

ReviewsPraise for Red Side Story "Cleverly constructed, with engaging characters and lots of good jokes, this sparkling Wizard of Oz-inspired fantasy is . . . one of the quirkiest dystopias ever imagined." -- The Guardian "Fforde is one of modern literature's most reliably enjoyable visionaries . . . The jokes are excellent, the pacing breathless and the last line a classic." -- The Observer "Fforde paint[s] a flamboyant and Terry Pratchett-esque picture laced with laughter throughout." -- The Irish News "It's a tale of a young couple's thirst for justice and answers in an implacably rigid society, where the prisoners are also the guards, and cages of convention bind the citizens to only one way of thinking - or suffer the consequences . . ." --Scala Radio Book Club "The satirical dystopian setting and memorable characters highlight Fforde's skill with worldbuilding and dialogue." -- Library Journal Praise for Shades of Grey "This insanely clever novel from the author of the best-selling 'Thursday Next' series sounds like a cult classic for people who crave a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness. Fforde has now created his most original story, an elaborate social satire about a weird but oddly familiar world almost 500 years in the future. Every page of this high-concept novel (the first of a projected trilogy) glistens with ingenious details." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post " Shades of Grey would be a thin tale if it didn't reflect and obliquely comment on the real world around us, but Mr. Fforde has his priorities right: First, be funny and entertaining. Second, make 'em think. But only a little. Shades of Grey II and III are promised at the end of this book, and I'll admit it, until they're out, I'll feel a bit blue." --Karen Sandstrom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Fforde is an author of immense imagination. Not satisfied with just a few layers of Dickensian jokes and revisions of the physical universe, he creates an archeological treasure trove for readers . . . The coming-of-age story and manic-pixie-dream-girl romance don't need to be much more than icing on the cake to make Shades of Grey a fancifully satisfying concoction." --The A.V. Club " Shades of Grey is absolutely [Fforde's] by-now-expected, over-the-top brand of storytelling . . . The world is wildly but closely imagined, so the result is as internally coherent as it is unlikely. Distinctive wordplay abounds. All the fooling around is built on a good mystery, and Fforde telegraphs no punches." -- Denver Post "Fforde crafts a world with rules goofy enough to enjoy, characters with depth enough to love and hate, and a mystery that unravels so slowly and deceptively that you might not realize you're waiting for the other shoe to drop until it actually does." --SFGate " Shades of Grey is brilliant. The world he creates is unique and fully-realized . . . Those who enjoy reading the works of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman . . . will find Fforde's comedy right up their alley. It's British humor at its finest." --BookBrowse "This series starter combines the dire warnings of Brave New World and 1984 with the deevolutionary visions of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Riddley Walker , but, Fforde being Fforde, his dystopia includes an abundance of tea shops and a severe shortage of jam varieties. It's all brilliantly original." -- Booklist , Starred Review, Praise for Shades of Grey "This insanely clever novel from the author of the best-selling 'Thursday Next' series sounds like a cult classic for people who crave a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness. Fforde has now created his most original story, an elaborate social satire about a weird but oddly familiar world almost 500 years in the future. Every page of this high-concept novel (the first of a projected trilogy) glistens with ingenious details." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post " Shades of Grey would be a thin tale if it didn't reflect and obliquely comment on the real world around us, but Mr. Fforde has his priorities right: First, be funny and entertaining. Second, make 'em think. But only a little. Shades of Grey II and III are promised at the end of this book, and I'll admit it, until they're out, I'll feel a bit blue." --Karen Sandstrom, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Fforde is an author of immense imagination. Not satisfied with just a few layers of Dickensian jokes and revisions of the physical universe, he creates an archeological treasure trove for readers . . . The coming-of-age story and manic-pixie-dream-girl romance don't need to be much more than icing on the cake to make Shades of Grey a fancifully satisfying concoction." --The A.V. Club " Shades of Grey is absolutely [Fforde's] by-now-expected, over-the-top brand of storytelling . . . The world is wildly but closely imagined, so the result is as internally coherent as it is unlikely. Distinctive wordplay abounds. All the fooling around is built on a good mystery, and Fforde telegraphs no punches." -- Denver Post "Fforde crafts a world with rules goofy enough to enjoy, characters with depth enough to love and hate, and a mystery that unravels so slowly and deceptively that you might not realize you're waiting for the other shoe to drop until it actually does." --SFGate " Shades of Grey is brilliant. The world he creates is unique and fully-realized . . . Those who enjoy reading the works of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman . . . will find Fforde's comedy right up their alley. It's British humor at its finest." --BookBrowse "This series starter combines the dire warnings of Brave New World and 1984 with the deevolutionary visions of A Canticle for Leibowitz and Riddley Walker , but, Fforde being Fforde, his dystopia includes an abundance of tea shops and a severe shortage of jam varieties. It's all brilliantly original." -- Booklist , Starred Review

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number2

Dewey Decimal823.92

SynopsisThe long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey-- in an EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American readers, complete with a never-before-published short story "Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett." -- The Independent Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years before. Society is now color vision-segregated, everything dictated by an individual's visual ability, and governed by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Twenty-year-old Eddie Russett, a Red, is about to go on trial for a murder he didn't commit, and he's pretty certain to be sent on a one-way trip to the Green Room for execution by soporific color exposure. Meanwhile, he's engaged in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant, a Green, the charismatic and unpredictable Jane Grey. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, they search for a loophole--some truth of their world that has been hidden from its hyper-policed citizens. New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde returns to his fan-favorite Shades of Grey series with this wildly anticipated, laugh-out-loud funny and darkly satirical adventure about two star-crossed lovers on a quest to survive--even if it means upending their entire society in the process.

LC Classification NumberPR6106.F67R44 2024