The Resource Arcadia, Iain Pears
Arcadia, Iain Pears
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- Summary
- Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds. He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing journey. Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel. Meanwhile - in the real world - one of Lytten's former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment. As he and his characters struggle with questions of free will, love, duty and the power of the imagination, Lytten discovers he is not sure how he wants his stories to end, nor even who is imaginary ..
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Arcadia
- Title
- Arcadia
- Statement of responsibility
- Iain Pears
- Subject
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- trueCollege teachers
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueParallel universes
- trueUtopias
- trueFantasy fiction
- trueScience fiction
- trueEspionage
- trueOxford, England
- trueScience fantasy
- Spy stories
- trueTime travel (Past)
- trueIntelligence service
- Scientists -- Fiction
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueEngland -- History -- 20th century
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- trueDystopias
- trueScientists
- College teachers -- Fiction
- trueMathematicians
- trueFantasy writing
- Suspense fiction
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds. He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing journey. Lytten also imagines a different society, highly regulated and dominated by technology, which is trying to master the science of time travel. Meanwhile - in the real world - one of Lytten's former intelligence colleagues tracks him down for one last assignment. As he and his characters struggle with questions of free will, love, duty and the power of the imagination, Lytten discovers he is not sure how he wants his stories to end, nor even who is imaginary ..
- Summary
- Spanning multiple worlds, this stylistically complex, yet accessible, novel tracks the intersecting lives of several characters. There's Henry Lytten, a 1960s Oxford scholar; Angela Meersen, a "psychomathematician" from a dystopian future world who has discovered a method of accessing parallel universes; and Jay, a precocious young man from Anterworld, a universe created by Meersen based on Lytten's writings -- an "Arcadia" visited by Rosie Wilson, an otherwise ordinary British teenager who can travel between dimensions. -- Description by Gillian Speace
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2016
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- 10464679
- Cataloging source
- QRML
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pears, Iain
- Index
- no index present
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- 770
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
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- Scientists
- College teachers
- Fate and fatalism
- Target audience
- general
- Label
- Arcadia, Iain Pears
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000055103331
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 594 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571301584
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)915505080
- Label
- Arcadia, Iain Pears
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000055103331
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 594 pages
- Isbn
- 9780571301584
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)915505080
Subject
- true1960s -- 1960 -- 1969
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueCollege teachers
- College teachers -- Fiction
- trueDystopias
- trueEngland -- History -- 20th century
- trueEspionage
- trueFantasy fiction
- trueFantasy writing
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- trueIntelligence service
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMathematicians
- trueOxford, England
- trueParallel universes
- trueScience fantasy
- trueScience fiction
- trueScientists
- Scientists -- Fiction
- Spy stories
- Suspense fiction
- trueTime travel (Past)
- trueUtopias
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueFantasy fiction
- Fiction
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueScience fantasy
- trueScience fiction
- Spy stories
- Suspense fiction
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