The Disappearance

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781453248454

<DIV><B>This brilliant classic of speculative fiction imagines the aftermath of an extraordinary global occurrence that forces Earth&rsquo;s men and women to exist in parallel dimensions</B><BR /><BR /> Like every other family, the Gaunts are devastated by the unexplained phenomenon that occurs one Tuesday afternoon in February. In an instant, every female on Earth is mysteriously transported to a different plane, forced to live apart from the males, who have been left behind. Suddenly trapped in two parallel realities&mdash;with the bonds of love, trust, sex, and stability that formed the foundation of their relationship abruptly severed&mdash;Bill and Paula Gaunt must separately reexamine who they truly are and what they are capable of as existence itself becomes a struggle in one world that descends into violence and brutality, and another that is soon plagued by famine and despair.<BR /><BR /> Originally published more than half a century ago, Philip Wylie&rsquo;s provocative science fiction classic remains a masterful work of intelligence and imagination. <I>The Disappearance </I>is a breathtaking, thought-provoking exploration of gender roles and expectations that reveals stark truths about who we are as men and women&mdash;and as the interconnected members of a fallible human race.</DIV>