Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde

Author of The Eyre Affair

Also known as: Jasper Forde, Jasper Fford, Jasper Fforde, Jasper Ffored, Jasper Ffords, Jaspar Fforde ... (see complete list)

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Partners & Crime: Jasper Fforde (January 5 at 19:00)
Jasper Fforde is coming to Partners & Crime to sign his new NEW book, SHADES OF GREY.
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Borders - Ann Arbor - Waters Place: Jasper Fforde (January 6 at 19:00)
Shades of Grey reading and signing. In SHADES OF GREY we meet Eddie Russet who belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see 58 percent of his own colorbut no other. But he is content with his limitations. That is, until he meets Jane, who provokes Eddie into questioning the status quo's implacable ... (more)hierarchy. Their world was not always like this, many years before, a never-discussed disaster installed the current bizarre regime. As Eddie's rose-tinted life is obliterated, their fevered talk gives way to revolutionary action.
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Third Place Books: Jasper Fforde (January 8 at 18:30)
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.
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M is for Mystery: Jasper Fforde (January 9 at 14:00)
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.
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Capitola Book Cafe: Jasper Fforde (January 10 at 17:30)
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.
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Bookworks: Jasper Fforde (January 13 at 19:00)
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.
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Books & Books - Coral Gables: Jasper Fforde (January 14 at 20:00)
USA Multi-City tour for promotion of Shades of Grey. Reading/Q&A/Signing.
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Buckhead: Jasper Fforde (January 15 at 19:30)
Jasper Fforde signs Shades of Grey.
An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness ... (more)to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see. Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marry Constance Oxblood and inherit the string works; he may even have enough red perception to make prefect. For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine. There, he falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect, rigidly controlled society. Curiosity--a dangerous trait to display in a society that demands total conformity--gets the better of Eddie, who beings to wonder: Why are there not enough spoons to go around? Why is everything--and everyone--barcoded? What happened to all the people who never returned from High Saffron? And why, when you begin to question the world around you, do black-and-white certainties reduce themselves to shades of grey? Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, this is the new world from the creative and comic genius of Jasper Fforde.
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers - Buckhead: Jasper Fforde (January 15 at 19:30)
Jasper Fforde signs Shades of Grey.
An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness ... (more)to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see. Young Eddie Russett has no ambition to be anything other than a loyal drone of the Collective. With his better-than-average red perception, he could well marry Constance Oxblood and inherit the string works; he may even have enough red perception to make prefect. For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected swatchman, to East Carmine. There, he falls in love with a Grey named Jane who opens his eyes to the painful truth behind his seemingly perfect, rigidly controlled society. Curiosity--a dangerous trait to display in a society that demands total conformity--gets the better of Eddie, who beings to wonder: Why are there not enough spoons to go around? Why is everything--and everyone--barcoded? What happened to all the people who never returned from High Saffron? And why, when you begin to question the world around you, do black-and-white certainties reduce themselves to shades of grey? Part satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, this is the new world from the creative and comic genius of Jasper Fforde.
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