- Fiction, Science fiction, Personal Beauty, Brainwashing
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Scott Westerfeld
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 377
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Audio
- Editions
- 29
- Language
- tur, French, und, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780439891615
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