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Book Reviews

August 1, 2018

Is it Really Life?

Lifel1k3
Jay Kristoff
ISBN: 9781760295691
$19.99
398 pp
Allen & Unwin 2018

This is a modern novel set, like so many others, in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. It is inhabited by a large cast, both human and non-human. However, Lifel1k3 is not about analysing the causes of wars and other violence or even about how people survive these. This novel is about questions of identity, memory, being/not being; and relationship (more…)