This Perfect Day

This Perfect Day

by Ira Levin

Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

Unabridged — 11 hours, 15 minutes

This Perfect Day

This Perfect Day

by Ira Levin

Narrated by Kevin T. Collins

Unabridged — 11 hours, 15 minutes

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Overview

By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine.

Considered one of the great dystopian novels-alongside Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World-Ira Levin's frightening glimpse into the future continues to fascinate readers even forty years after publication.

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called "The Family." The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. Even the basic facts of nature are subject to UniComp's will-men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night.

With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin`s most haunting novels.


Editorial Reviews

New York Times Book Review

Ira Levin’s Brave New World.”

founder of the New Individualist Review Ralph Raico

In my view, This Perfect Day outshines Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s great 1984 in a number of ways. First of all, in the greater political and cultural perspicacity…Secondly, Levin’s is superior…in all the elements of novel-building: in plot, stylistic virtuosity, and characterization.”

GeekyDomain.com

Ira Levin must have built an actual time machine and moved to 2020, where he rented an apartment and wrote the manuscript for This Perfect Day with one eye on cable news. There can be no other possible explanation.”

New York Times

A futuristic nightmare.”

Mal Warwick on Books

A superb tale of a future where artificial intelligence rules.”

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

The same riveting directness that made Rosemary’s Baby a terrifying reality.”

Book Week

Outshines Orwell’s 1984.”

Look magazine

Marvelously entertaining. A cross between Brave New World and Doctor Who.”

Dimensions

An exceptionally serious contribution to the analysis of our own world.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer

Will make the hairs on your neck rise up and tremble.”

Product Details

BN ID: 2940173498533
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 06/24/2014
Edition description: Unabridged
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