They

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They
a növel by Marya Mannes
They were young and worshipped only youth; They were free and not inhibited by order and form; They believed that logic and reason were meaningless and that only sensation counted; They denied their cul-tural inheritance, destroyed their past, and. . . .
They decreed that all people be retired at age fifty, segregated in special communities, allowed to live only fífteen years more. . . .
This is a powerful növel about the not-too-distant future. It is a moving —and frightening—record of the last years of five people isolated by age from everything meaningful in the world except the humanity they find in each other. Their words, their thoughts, their bittersweet memo-ries are perhaps the last eloquent testimony of a dead civilization; and yet, the surprising climax of They is a strangely touching aíBrmation of faith.
Marya Mannes, no stranger to con-troversy, has for many years been aiming brilliant and witty barbs at the sacred cows of the American... Tovább

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They
a növel by Marya Mannes
They were young and worshipped only youth; They were free and not inhibited by order and form; They believed that logic and reason were meaningless and that only sensation counted; They denied their cul-tural inheritance, destroyed their past, and. . . .
They decreed that all people be retired at age fifty, segregated in special communities, allowed to live only fífteen years more. . . .
This is a powerful növel about the not-too-distant future. It is a moving —and frightening—record of the last years of five people isolated by age from everything meaningful in the world except the humanity they find in each other. Their words, their thoughts, their bittersweet memo-ries are perhaps the last eloquent testimony of a dead civilization; and yet, the surprising climax of They is a strangely touching aíBrmation of faith.
Marya Mannes, no stranger to con-troversy, has for many years been aiming brilliant and witty barbs at the sacred cows of the American cultural and literary life. She has written television and theatre criti-cism, feature articles, social satire and satiric political verse but is per-haps best known for her two books More In Anger and But Will It Sell? Miss Mannes is a regular contribu-tor to a great many national publi-cations, including Harpers, Esquire, The New Republic and McCatt's. Vissza