Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women
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"a fascinating reflection on totalitarianism as refracted through Orwell's times and our own" The Guardian London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She's very good at staying alive. But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department - a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she's losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world. Seventy-five years after Orwell finished writing his iconic novel, Sandra Newman has tackled the world of Big Brother in a truly convincing way, offering a dramatically different, feminist narrative that is true to and stands alongside the original. For the millions of readers who have been brought up with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, here, finally, is a provocative, vital and utterly satisfying companion novel.
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women
This critical edition of Julia is the first modern printing of a novel that blends the character development of a poet with critical reflections on social injustice.
Full-Length Play "Julia is a very touching work by playwright Vince Melocchi written with the conviction that the little, almost incidental, acts of youth can haunt us for a lifetime... a vibrant exploration of love and regret... takes a simple story and brings it to the personal level, with immediacy, honesty and restraint." -Reviews Off Broadway Fifty years have passed since Lou broke Julia's heart. Now he's returned home to ask her forgiveness, but first must convince her son and a dear family friend that he's worthy of redemption. Gaining the men's confidence, Lou attempts to right his wrong, but is thwarted by the discovery that Julia's memories have been stolen by Alzheimer's. How do you ask forgiveness from someone who no longer knows you? With the humor of Silver Linings Playbook and the heart of The Notebook, this timeless love story questions the ethics of absolution when confronted with the fragility of the mind. (Cast: 2F, 4M)
Two Souls brought together by the same tragedy. Julia Dexter is a young woman with the perfect life and family, with everything she can ever ask for. As she gets older, things begin to change, not really in her life but in her own mind. She has nightmares that she can not explain and she starts to question what they mean. With her eighteenth birthday a few days away, life begins to change as she meets twenty-two year old, Ethan Morrow. Although, it may seem like the perfect relationship and even better life, disaster is just around the corner.
Two Souls brought together by the same tragedy. Julia Dexter is a young woman with the perfect life and family, with everything she can ever ask for. As she gets older, things begin to change, not really in her life but in her own mind. She has nightmares that she can not explain and she starts to question what they mean. With her eighteenth birthday a few days away, life begins to change as she meets twenty-two year old, Ethan Morrow. Although, it may seem like the perfect relationship and even better life, disaster is just around the corner.
A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her eventful life from Montreal to Vancouver, from Banff to London, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the US are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today.
Femoghalvfjerds år efter udgivelsen af George Orwells banebrydende roman 1984 har Sandra Newman med godkendelse fra Orwells arvinger kastet sig over historien fra 1984 for at give den en dramatisk anderledes, feministisk vinkel, der er tro mod og kan stå ved siden af originalen. En roman til de millioner af læsere, der har læst og gyst ved tanken om det ultimativt totalitære system, som Orwell beskrev.London 1984, den tredje mest folkerige by i Oceanien. Julia Worthing arbejder som mekaniker, hun reparerer romanskrivningsmaskinerne i fiktionsafdelingen ved Ministeriet for Sandhed. Partiet og dets leder Big Brother regerer under ideologien INgSoc, og Julia er en mønsterborger, der trives i samfundet – muntert kynisk og uden tro på noget som helst, den politiske virkelighed interesserer hende ikke. Hun bryder reglerne, når det passer hende, men arbejder sammen med regimet, når det er nødvendigt. Alle kan lide Julia, der er et flittigt medlem af en anti-sex-gruppe, selvom hun i al hemmelighed er promiskuøs. Hun er dygtig til at navigere i en verden med konstant overvågning; nysprog, dobbelttænk, tankepoliti og børnespioner. Julia ved, hvordan man overlever.Men Julia bliver optaget af en kollega, der arbejder i ministeriets historiske afdeling, Winston Smith, da hun ser ham holde øjenkontakt med en overordnet under de to minutters Had. Da hun en dag kommer gående mod Winston i en gang, stikker hun ham hurtigt en seddel i hånden – en handling, der næsten er lig med selvmord – og det går op for hende, at hun er ved at miste grebet, at hun ikke længere kan navigere i verden.
