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Title: |
The Silicon Tongue |
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| By (author): |
Beryl Fletcher |
| ISBN10-13: |
1875559493 : 9781875559497 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
140x215mm |
| Pages: |
235 |
| Weight: |
.200 Kg. |
| Published: |
Spinifex Press - July 1996 |
| List Price: |
11.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 3 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) : Ethical issues: scientific & technological develop : Impact of science & technology on society |
| The Silicon Tongue is centred on the life of London-born Alice who was brought to New Zealand as a servant in the 1930s. Tricked by the authorities into believing she was an orphan, Alice tells her story into the tape recorder of a mysterious oral historian and discloses family secrets of rape and adoption. She discovers a kinship with a teenage nethead called Pixel and learns that old women can fly in cyberspace along with the young. Meanwhile, Aliceā s daughter Joy finds out that when it comes to family stories there is always more than one version of the truth. |
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