WYNDHAM, JOHN (JOHN WYNDHAM PARKES LUCAS BEYNON HARRIS) — Chocky

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. Ballantine book number U6119 with a price of .75 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The white book covers have some light toning / toning. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is light generalized toning throughout. "Wyndham's reputation rests mainly on the first four of the novels published in his life under that name. The Day of the Triffids remains his best-known work, but some readers consider that The Chrysalids was really his best. This is set in the far future of a post-nuclear dystopia where genetic stability is compromised and women are severely oppressed if they give birth to "mutants". David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, wrote of it: "One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written. Wyndham was a true English visionary, a William Blake with a science doctorate." The Guardian states his "innocuously English backdrops are central to the power of his novels, implying that apocalypse could occur at any time — or, indeed, be happening in the next village at this moment", while The Times's reviewer of The Day of the Triffids described it as possessing "all the reality of a vividly realised nightmare." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .