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Walter Tevis - The Man Who Fell To Earth (2nd Hand Paperback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781473213111
Synopsis
The remarkable novel upon which the stunning cult film starring David Bowie was based.
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings.
When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.
Meanwhile, Nathan Bryce, a chemistry professor in Iowa, is intrigued by some of the new products Newton's company brings to the market, and already suspects Newton of being an alien. As Bryce and the FBI close in, Newton finds his own clarity and sense of purpose diminishing.
An utterly realistic novel about an alien human on Earth . . . realistic enough to become a metaphor for something inside us all, some existential aloneness.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good (Almost Very Good)
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 1963 (This Edition 2016 - Gollancz)
- ISBN : 9781473213111
- SKU : B002624
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £9.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"Beautiful . . . The story of an extra-terrestrial visitor from another planet is designed mainly to say something about life on this one." - New York Times.
"Tevis writes with power and poetry and tension." - Washington Post.
"One of the finest science fiction novels of its period." - J R Dunn, author of Full Tide of Night.
The Author
Walter Stone Tevis was an American novelist and short story writer. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth. A fourth, The Queen’s Gambit, was adapted into a miniseries with the same title and shown on Netflix in 2020.Delivery & Postage
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