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The Constant Rabbit (edizione 2020)

di Jasper Fforde

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Fantasy. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:"Reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four." �??The Guardian "Every book of Fforde's seems to be a cause for celebration." �?? Charles Yu, The New York Times Book Review on Early Riser A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They wear clothes and can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an inexplicable Spontaneous Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years earlier. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Spick & Span awards for the best-kept village. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and she and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors�??longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa�??decide to stand with them . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or to humans, but not both. With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species. An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing crea… (altro)

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Utente:	SimoneA
Titolo:	The Constant Rabbit
Autori:	Jasper Fforde
Info:	London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.
Collezioni:	All owned, All reads, La tua biblioteca, E-books
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Etichette:	2020, fiction, *fantasy, read 2023

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audio fiction (~12.5hrs) - disturbingly familiar satirical dystopian alternate history - in the 1960s, a mysterious Anthropomorphizing Event turned some rabbits (and other creatures) into humanlike forms; 55 years later they have some limited rights in the UK but the conservative humans in power are determined to confine all rabbits to a MegaWarren in Wales by any means necessary.

dark humor and plenty of dangerous threats in a high-quality audio production. (

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reader1009 | Jan 18, 2024 |

The Spontaneous Anthropomorphizing Event in 1965 resulted, by 2022, in the presence of over a million humanized rabbits in the UK, with the accompanying rise of the right-wing UKARP, the anti-rabbit party, which has now come to national power and has instigated various laws and plans to, well, dehumanize the rabbits more or less. Peter Knox has worked as a Spotter for what is essentially the rabbit crime squad for many years, but he still remembers his university friendship with Constance Rabbit in fond terms. When she turns up in his little village, along with her children and latest husband, it is but a short hop from fuzzy warm-hearted feelings to full-on revolutionary actions in Peter’s continuing evolution…. Jasper Fforde is one of the UK’s finest satirists, in addition to being one of the funniest writers in the English language; it is really just icing on the top that he has a way with footnotes too! I am still in awe of his first novel, The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, and while The Constant Rabbit doesn’t reach quite those heights (nothing can, after all), it is full of surprises and total laugh-out-loud moments, along with a bit of philosophizing and poignancy as well. As a stand-alone, one doesn’t need to know other works by Mr. Fforde, but why would any reader want to deprive themselves of the joy of discovering all of his work? Highly recommended! (

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thefirstalicat | Dec 30, 2023 |

Delightfully absurd. (

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fionaanne | Nov 14, 2023 |

Lovers of Jasper Fforde's weird fantasy novels will know exactly what to expect here. The Constant Rabbit describes a world where an Event has occurred that spontaneously created a large number of anthropomorphised, sentient rabbits, and endowed them with the ability to speak English. Other animals also had their own such Events, including foxes and weasels.

Fforde uses this premise to write a trenchant satire on right-wing extremism, Brexit, racial politics, labour exploitation, and animal cruelty. None of this gets too heavy, as he wraps it in the rollicking tale of Peter Knox, a rabbit spotter with RabCoT, who gets inveigled by a rabbit femme fatale into supporting the Rabbit Underground. There are lots of popular culture references and arch observations to sugar the pill, but his message is clear all the same. (

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gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |

Following the anthropomorphising event some time before the book starts, human-sized rabbits live alongside humans, following the rabbit way. There are many humans that don't trust anyone different and focus this hatred on rabbits. Peter Knox works for the Rabbit Compliance Taskforce as he is one of the few people with the ability to recognise different rabbits. He lives in a small village in Herefordshire and when a family of rabbits move in next door his right-wing neighbours want to make trouble but one of the rabbits is an old university friend of Peter's. Once I settled into the world that Jasper Fforde has created I was swept away with the world of humans, rabbits and some foxes and weasels. An excellent read with lots of jokes that made me laugh out loud and, of course, plenty of commentary on our times today. (

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Nome dell'autore	Ruolo	Tipo di autore	Opera?	Stato
Fforde, Jasper	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	confermato
Colligan, Thomas	Progetto della copertina	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Mudron, Bill	Illustratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato
Wincott, Andrew	Narratore	autore secondario	alcune edizioni	confermato

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The Constant Rabbit

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2020-07

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Peter Knox, RabCoT Rabbit Identification Operative

Pippa Knox

Constance Grace Iolanthe Rabbit "Connie"

Major Clifford Rabbit "Doc"

Toby Mallett, RabCoT Rabbit Identification Operative

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Much Hemlock, Herefordshire, England, UK

Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK

May Hill, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, UK

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It cannot be said too often: all life is one.

- A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

To the human eye, each rabbit looks very much like the other.

- The Private Life of the Rabbit - R.M. Lockley

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Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet.

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Without rabbits to be the focus of his hatred, Nigel Smethwick directed his ire at 'anyone different', and the followers of UKARP followed suite, using a simple word substitution to change their party constitution and mission statement quickly and efficiently. He was defeated in the next general election, his message of Hominid Supremacism diluted by the loss of the rabbits. He retired from politics but remains active as a talk-show pundit. The language of division can always be monetized. [p. 305]

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(Click per vedere. Attenzione: può contenere anticipazioni.)

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Mays, Carolyn

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823.92

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Fantasy. Fiction. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:"Reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four."
�??The Guardian
"Every book of Fforde's seems to be a cause for celebration."
�?? Charles Yu, The New York Times Book Review on Early Riser
A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series
England, 2022.
There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK.
They wear clothes and can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an inexplicable Spontaneous Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years earlier.
A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Spick & Span awards for the best-kept village.
No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and she and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors�??longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa�??decide to stand with them . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or to humans, but not both.
With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species.
An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing crea

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