![]() ![]() They envisions an England at once familiar and foreign, in the grip of a philistine movement which persecutes art and nonconformity. Its subtitle ‘A Sequence of Unease’ aptly expresses its form, which resembles interlinked stories, or a ‘fix-up novel’. They By Kay Dick Afterword by Scholes Published by McNally Editions Distributed by Simon & Schuster Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 18. ‘They’ are everywhere: an inexorable mob, terrifying in its lack of governing intelligence Reissued with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, another master of the uncanny, They makes its second entrance, into a world that has caught up. It won the South-East Arts Literature Prize but soon went out of print, where it remained until a literary agent chanced on it in a charity shop. In 1977, she published They, a dystopian horror quite unlike her other work. Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgotten, Kay Dicks They follows a nameless, genderless narrator living along the lush but decimated English coast, where a loose cohort of cultural refugees live meditative, artistic. Her most acclaimed novel was The Shelf, the story of a lesbian affair which drew heavily on her own life and circle. The use of brain washing to remove all memory or even. She lived in Hampstead with the novelist Kathleen Farrell for more than 20 years, among a mid-20th-century literary set that included Stevie Smith and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The premise is a simple one, the gradual removal of artistic freedoms to create writing, art and music. Her name has faded, but the British author and editor Kay Dick once cut a striking figure. ![]()
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