The Fixed Period (The World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (657 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0192828428 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Published in 1882, this extraordinary novel--an excercise in Swiftian irony combined with a love story in a furturistic setting--is entirely uncharacteristic of Trollope's usual drawing room conversations and hunting scenes. Set in the 1980s, The Fixed Period describes an imaginary, antipodean ex-colony governed by a President who views himself as a benefactor of the human race, Orwellian double-speak and gunboat diplomacy. This is Trollope's strangest and most chilling novel.
. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns. About the Author As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841
Maggie Jarpey said interesting idea but too long for the idea. Interesting idea, and some humorous moments, but overall this book has far too many words for its story.. Steve Forsyth said "Quiet, old man, or I'll Fix-Period you!" -Trollope's experimental dystopian novel.. At the age of 65 and nearing the end of his life, Trollope was facing the inevitable decline in his health and awareness. It is not surprising, then, that in one of his last novels he would tackle the topic of old age and the impact that the elderly have on society.THE FIXED PERIOD stands unique in Trollope's oeuvre in many ways. It's one of the few, perhaps only of his novels told in a strictly first person view - it's set 100 years in the future, so it could marginally be considered sci-fi - and it uses satire and dark irony as it's impetus for communicating its poin. "Before its time" according to Feroza R. I loved this book when I first read it many years ago, inspired by a positive review in the Toronto Star. What if we as a civilization decided that instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars on caring for people once they got old, we decided on a specific age that people would no longer be allowed to live? What if a group of young people decided on what that age would be? What would happen once the young people who made that decision started to reach "the fixed period"?
The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns. As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better-paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841.