Bibliographical Description
87.01.W030: Davies – The Last Election
THE | LAST | ELECTION | [rule 6.9 cm] | PETE DAVIES | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
128 leaves, pp. [10] 1 2 3-52 53 54-73 74 75-104 105 106-188 189 190-209 210 211-233 234 [12]
First Vintage Books Edition, January 1987
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedication, π3b blank, π4a epigraph, π4b blank, π5a fly-title, π5b blank, 1-234 The Last Election: 1-2 ‘PROLOGUE’, 3-53 ‘FRIDAY’, 54-74 ‘MONDAY’, 75-105 ‘TUESDAY’, 106-189 ‘WEDNESDAY’, 190-210 ‘THURSDAY’, 211-234 ‘GOOD TELEVISION’; χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, χ3a blank, χ3b blank, χ4a blank, χ4b blank, χ5a blank, χ5b blank, χ6a blank, χ6b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Jerry Bauer.
Copyright: © 1986. ISBN: 0-394-74702-X. Price: $6.95. The Last Election was first published by André Deutsch 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) If Brazil were based on a novel, it might well have been The Last Election. – Terry Gilliam
- At the time of the last election, who rules England? Nanny does. For what party? The Money Party. Who are “the jobless”? The general public. And what keeps them happy, more or less? A stultifying mix of pop music, pool tournaments and broadcasts by Wally Wasted—prepared by executives who live in precarious high-tech luxury, fueled by booze and cocaine. / Grief is one of them. He invented the government-subsidized Dance Barns, and still runs the biggest—a palce of sex and rock intended to keep the young happy and harmless. His lover, Milla, is an advertising phenom on the brink of collapse. Both Grief and Milla loathe the government, but both are compromised by their success on its behalf…until they discover the ultimate purpose of the latest street drug. As the aged are severely taxing the government’s ability to provide for them financially, this drug hurries things along, so to speak… / The Last Election gives to the distinguished tradition of such “political” novels as 1984 and A Clockwork Orange a compassionate, human face, and possesses as well the imaginative futurism of such films as Brazil and Blade Runner. Already acclaimed in Great Britain, Pete Davies has made a stunning debut.
- Vivid, nasty, brutish, and paranoic…a prophecy of the urban apocalypse. – The Times (London)
- A fast, inventive and funny thriller which holds us to the last. – The Observer