5/20/2023 0 Comments The milkman book reviewSuspicion and fear are rife, only deepening the chasms that have rendered compromise virtually impossible. Having moved from the UK to the US with both places in the midst of extreme political turmoil, I am no stranger to the infectious paranoia that preoccupies all sides of the political spectrum. The surge in fascination with dystopian fiction – George Orwell’s 1984 topping the bestseller list following the most recent US election is certainly indicative of the trend – plays on popular concerns regarding relationships between groups and a growing global illiberalism. With the world on its current troubling political trajectory, interest in literature that takes on the themes of totalitarianism and social disharmony is on the increase. I suppose now, looking back, this milkman knew all of that as well.” This would be a nineteeth-century book because I did not like twentieth-century books because I did not like the twentieth century. Every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, stand-off or riots, I preferred to walk home reading my latest book. Also he made the pronouncement that I never caught this bus home. “He knew my work – where it was, what I did there, the hours, the days and the twenty-past-eight bus I caught every morning when it wasn’t being hijacked to get me into town to it.
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