{"product_id":"9781987817294","title":"We","description":" \u003cp\u003e In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship \u003ci\u003eIntegral,\u003c\/i\u003e that frontier-and whatever alien species are to be found there-will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne number, D-503, chief architect of the \u003ci\u003eIntegral\u003c\/i\u003e, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful I-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery-or rediscovery-of \u003ci\u003einner\u003c\/i\u003e spaceand that disease the ancients called the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c\/i\u003e is the classic dystopian novel. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the end of the twentieth century as it was at the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"we\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.\"(— Irving Howe) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"One of the best!\"(— \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"As the first major anti-utopian fantasyhas its own peculiar wryness and grace, sharper than the pamphleteering of\u003ci\u003e 1984\u003c\/i\u003e or thephilosophical scheme of \u003ci\u003eBrave New World,\u003c\/i\u003e its celebrated descendants.\"(— \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Fantastic.\"(— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Rehak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137917370608,"sku":"9781987817294","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781987817294_p0.jpg?v=1763672283","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781987817294","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}