Jasper fforde, best known for the adventures of literary detective thursday next in the surreal book world, talks to sarah crown about his new novel shades of grey and the boundry between utopia. Ive been working with color for almost 60 years, and yet marvel at the world fforde has spun out of everyday color theory. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Humor audiobooks jasper fforde the well of lost plots part 02.
Jasper fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the. In jasper fforde s great britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality dodos are the resurrected pet of choice, and literature is taken very, very seriously. The road to high saffron is a dystopian novel, the first in the shades of grey series by novelist jasper fforde. Browse audiobooks written by jasper fforde sorted by best selling this month page 1 sign up login. Jasper fforde s shades of grey surprised the hell out of me. Jasper fforde audio books, best sellers, author bio. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Browse audiobooks written by jasper fforde sorted by.
Jasper ffordes new novel has one of the highest, or narrowest, of concepts ive come across in a long time, and. Jasper fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the new york times bestseller list with the eyre affair. Jasper fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out the window and arranging words on a page. In the books reality, its centuries after some illdefined cataclysm, and the world is now full of strange things like living roads, maneating trees, small gravitydefying relics, and wandering balls of electrical energy. Written by jasper fforde, audiobook narrated by john lee. While there is humor, the story becomes darker, the characters more intense, the world more strange and disturbing with each turn of the page. Shades of grey has 6 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. Fans of the work of jasper fforde will appreciate this novel, similar in style to shades of grey, which blends a spy story with a bit of lonely mounty mystique. He is the author of the nursery crime and thursday next series. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the. The new york times bestseller and a rich brew of dystopic fantasy and deadpan goofiness the washington post from the author of the thursday. Jasper fforde shades of grey shades of grey a chromaticologists handbook i could write ten thousand words about colour spaces and the difficulty in visualising colour, both in print and on the screen, and still only touch on the subject.
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