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MARTians

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Sharp and satirical, this dark comedy will appeal to fans of M.T. Anderson's groundbreaking dystopia, Feed. An unsettling story of consumerism gone mad, MARTians brilliantly imagines "a world that is part Kafka and part Orwell" (Booklist).

Last girl Zoë Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, is starting work at AllMART, where "your smile is the AllMART welcome matÔÇØ. Her living arrangements are equally bleak: she can wait for her home to be repossessed now that AnnaMom has left, or move to the Warren, an abandoned shopping centre, to live with the other left-behind children. As Zoë struggles to find her place in a world that has consumed itself beyond redemption, she realizes she isn’t ready to disappear into the AllMART abyss quite yet. Zoë wants to live.

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Walker Books
1406355631 / 9781406355635
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
813.6
17/12/2015
England
English
224 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 230726, Points 7.00, Book Level 4.90,
Middle Years Plus - Key Stage 3 Learn More
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