Guernica Night [Hardcover]

Barry N. Malzberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1974

A rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable. How else could people endure in a world carefully calculated to rob its citizens of self-respect and dignity? One man struggles against the overpowering temptation to take his own life, because he realizes that he must survive or else give the strange unseen rulers final victory. The characters in this extraordinary novel of the future share a host of psychiatric disturbances. One is haunted by strange visions in the night; another can reach sexual climax only in the confines of an old jalopy; others share schizophrenic fantasies that give frightening insight into the nature of their anguish.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 140 pages
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672519917
• ISBN-13: 978-0672519918
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,966,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Plot...science fiction, March 22, 2004

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This review is from: Guernica Night (Hardcover)

A rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable. How else could people endure in a world carefully calculated to rob its citizens of self-respect and dignity? One man struggles against the overpowering temptation to take his own life, because he realizes that he must survive or else give the strange unseen rulers final victory.

The characters in this extraordinary novel of the future share a host of psychiatric disturbances. One is haunted by strange visions in the night; another can reach [climax involving sex] only in the confines of an old jalopy; others share schizophrenic fantasies that give frightening insight into the nature of their anguish.

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Seventies Dystopian Science Fiction, May 13, 2007

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Jo - See all my reviews

Guernica Night is for those readers who won't turn away from the possibility of another Armageddon; for those readers who don't flinch from meeting head-on insane people performing insane acts in a world in which madness has taken over; for those readers who see some truth in all of this.