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Just City by Jo Walton (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765332663
ISBN-139780765332660
eBay Product ID (ePID)201624016
Product Key Features
Book TitleJust City
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicScience Fiction / Time Travel, Fantasy / General, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Publication Year2015
GenreFiction
AuthorJo Walton
Book SeriesThessaly Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight21.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-296489
Reviews" A fast-moving yet thought-provoking novel."-- School Library Journal " Walton's no-nonsense prose and dialogue are the kind of thing I can read anywhere, in any situation, and fall into a world of intelligent people speaking to each other intelligently in interesting ways...Brilliant, compelling, and frankly unputdownable."-- NPR " An extraordinarily ambitious achievement."-- The Globe and Mail, "Rendered with Walton's usual power and beauty... It's this haunting character complexity that ultimately holds the reader captive to the tale." -N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times on My Real Children "Has as much in common with an Alice Munro story as it does with, say, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. "-Lev Grossman, Publishers Weekly on My Real Children "Funny, acute, and impassioned."-Ursula K. Le Guin on Among Others "There are the books you want to give all your friends, and there are the books you wish you could go back and give your younger self... Among Others [is] both."-Charlie Jane Anders, io9
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Synopsis"Here in the Just City you will become your best selves. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future--all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects, who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome--and, in an instant, found herself in the Just City with grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. Meanwhile, Apollo--stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does--has arranged to live a human life, and has come to the City as one of the children. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives--the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself--to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.
LC Classification NumberPR6073.A448J87 2015
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I needed this book for a class, and every other store I tried to buy from had it's so up charged, I'm happy I found this!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
