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Chocky
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Chocky
Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress.
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New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg film, and with a new introduction by Brian Aldiss.
Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence — Chocky — causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things; he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress.
Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own — who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Chocky by John Wyndham explores the intriguing concept of a child communicating with a mysterious alien presence. Reviewers often highlight the book's thought-provoking examination of childhood imagination, alien intelligence, and individuality. The narrative is praised for its gentle yet gripping storytelling, capturing both the wonder and anxiety that accompany such a unique encounter.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780141191492
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 March 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 126g
Pages: 160
About the Author
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote stories under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. He died in March 1969. Poet, playwright, critic, fiction and science-fiction writer Brian Aldiss was born in 1925 in Dereham, Norfolk, and is the author of more than seventy-five books. He lives in Oxford and was awarded an OBE in 2005 for Services to Literature
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