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By light alone / Adam Roberts.
- Title
- By light alone / Adam Roberts.
- Author
- Roberts, Adam (Adam Charles)
- Publication
- London : Gollancz, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR6118.O23 B9 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 407 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating. But other hungers remain ...The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped.
- Subject
- Kidnapping > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Hunger is a thing of the past. And so is food..." -- front cover. -In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor grow their hair, the rich affect baldness and flaunt their wealth by still eating. But other hungers remain ...The young daughter of an affluent New York family is kidnapped. The ransom dermands are refused. Years later a young women arrives at the family home claiming to be their long lost daughter. She has changed so much, she has lived on light, can anyone be sure that she has come home?
- ISBN
- 0575083646 (hbk)
- 9780575083646 (hbk)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library