Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde.
Full of brilliantly inventive wordplay and quirky fabrications * Mail on Sunday *
This colour-coded world of black-and-white regulations and heirachies is created with spry invention and wit * Daily Mail *
'A brilliantly written book, full of witticisms, wordplay and puns' * News of the World *
'A chromatic tale of fantastical wackiness where colour becomes an aspirational commodity. . Jasper Fforde's most ambitious novel yet' * Herald *
'An utter delight . . . The world Fforde has created in SHADES OF GREY is colourful beyond description.' * TheBookbag.co.uk *
'There are distinct shades of Orwell's 1984' * Daily Express *
SHADES OF GREY has something of a flavour of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. . .but the novel is much gentler than Gilliam's savage madcappery, and Fforde's world is more old-fashioned public school than bureaucratic nightmare * Guardian *
'Vintage Fforde: zany, original and teeming with complexity.' * Sunday Times, Australia *
Full of colourful characters and amusingly bizarre plot twists. . . SHADES OF GREY is a clever and enjoyable read * SFX Magazine *
This fantastically clever book is a riveting read * Star Magazine *
'A vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author's remarkably detailed color scheme' * Publishers Weekly *
'All brilliantly original' * Booklist *
Praise for Jasper Fforde * : *
'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' * Independent *
'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' * Herald *
'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' * The Times *
This colour-coded world of black-and-white regulations and heirachies is created with spry invention and wit * Daily Mail *
'A brilliantly written book, full of witticisms, wordplay and puns' * News of the World *
'A chromatic tale of fantastical wackiness where colour becomes an aspirational commodity. . Jasper Fforde's most ambitious novel yet' * Herald *
'An utter delight . . . The world Fforde has created in SHADES OF GREY is colourful beyond description.' * TheBookbag.co.uk *
'There are distinct shades of Orwell's 1984' * Daily Express *
SHADES OF GREY has something of a flavour of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. . .but the novel is much gentler than Gilliam's savage madcappery, and Fforde's world is more old-fashioned public school than bureaucratic nightmare * Guardian *
'Vintage Fforde: zany, original and teeming with complexity.' * Sunday Times, Australia *
Full of colourful characters and amusingly bizarre plot twists. . . SHADES OF GREY is a clever and enjoyable read * SFX Magazine *
This fantastically clever book is a riveting read * Star Magazine *
'A vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author's remarkably detailed color scheme' * Publishers Weekly *
'All brilliantly original' * Booklist *
Praise for Jasper Fforde * : *
'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' * Independent *
'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' * Herald *
'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' * The Times *
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340963036 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340963034 |
| Title | Shades of Grey |
| Author | Jasper Fforde |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 2010-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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