A Very Private Life (novel)

A Very Private Life (novel)

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name = A Very Private Life
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author = Michael Frayn
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country = United Kingdom
language = English
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genre = Fantasy
publisher = Collins
pub_date = 1968
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 192 p.
isbn = NA
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A Very Private Life - Michael Frayn (1968) is a futuristic fairy tale that describes a young girl's futile quest to make meaningful contact with another human being.

Plot summary

The protagonist (Uncumber) begins life in privileged home where she is estranged from her family by their reliance on drugs to regulate their emotions and social interactions. She leaves them in order to pursue a man (Noli) that she falls in love with on first sight despite a language barrier existing between them, which stops her from forming any relationships with him or his family. Noli unlike Uncumber is from the working class and she finally abandons him when he insists on using the drugs which she abhors in their love making. She finally makes it full circle when she is picked up shortly afterwards by the police and imprisoned in a room remarkably similar to the one in which she began and is eventually reconciled to the medicated life where every emotion exists on tap and the most intimate experience is sex which has replaced by lying next to your lover experiencing entirely private and separate hallucinations.


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