They: A Sequence of Unease

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"A masterwork of English pastoral horror." -Claire-Louise Bennett "Creepily prescient . . . Insidiously horrifying!" -Margaret Atwood (via Twitter) "I'm pretty wild about this paranoid, terrifying 1977 masterpiece." -Lauren Groff "Lush, strange, hypnotic, compulsive." -Eimear McBride "Crystalline . . . The signature of an enchantress." -Edna O'Brien "A masterpiece of creeping dread." -Emily St John Mandel Kay Dick's radical dystopian masterpiece, lost for forty years-with an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. Published to some acclaim in 1977 but swiftly forgotten, Kay Dick's They follows a nameless, genderless narrator living along the lush but decimated English coast, where a loose cohort of cultural refugees live meditative, artistic, often polyamorous lives. But this rustic tranquility is punctuated by bursts of menace as they must continually flee a faceless oppressor, an organization known only as "They," whose supporters range the countryside destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who ...