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    The Divers' Game: A Novel
    The Divers' Game: A Novel
    The Divers' Game: A Novel
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    The Divers' Game: A Novel

    Written by Jesse Ball

    Narrated by Devon Hales, Sophie Amoss and Cassandra Campbell

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    From the inimitable mind of award-winning author Jesse Ball, a novel about an unsettlingly familiar society that has renounced the concept of equality—and the devastating consequences of unmitigated power.

    The old-fashioned struggle for fairness has finally been abandoned. It was a misguided endeavor. The world is divided into two groups, pats and quads. The pats may kill the quads as they like, and do. The quads have no recourse but to continue with their lives.

    The Divers’ Game is a thinly veiled description of our society, an extreme case that demonstrates a truth: we must change or our world will collapse.

    What is the effect of constant fear on a life, or on a culture? The Divers’ Game explores the consequences of violence through two festivals, and through the dramatic and excruciating examination of a woman’s final moments.

    Brilliantly constructed and achingly tender, The Divers’ Game shatters the notion of common decency as the binding agent between individuals, forcing us to consider whether compassion is intrinsic to the human experience. With his signature empathy and ingenuity, Jesse Ball’s latest work solidifies his reputation as one of contemporary fiction’s most mesmerizing talents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9780062958099
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    Jesse Ball

    Jesse Ball is the author of fifteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. 

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    • 5/5
      Overall it was an interesting book, characters were fun and daring. The plot was confusing though and I'm not quite sure I understood the ending.
    • 5/5
      The Divers Gameby Jesse Ball2019 ECCO/ Harper Collins 4.5 / 5.0What a great story! Its short, written with precision and thought-provoking. A stimulating quick read. 'The Divers Game' deals with violence, how it effects society and how we are traumatized by the threat of violence against those considered as different, or other. In this dystopian novel, the world is divided into two very different groups. The Pats and the Quads. The Pats have supreme power, can kill or harass Quads any time for any thing, and the police do no intervene. It is considered acceptable. It becomes obvious that this is a story of Xenophobia, and the issue is immigration. Pats are from the area. Quads are not. Pats believe they can decide which Quads can stay, and which they will kill or allow to leave. If a Quad steps our of line, they kill the Quad. This is a very insightful and deep book. I enjoyed reading it and how it presents the issue of xenophobia.
    • 5/5
      A Snake, A Rope, A Wall or a Tree?Four Ways of Looking at a Dystopia*Review of an Advance Reading Copy of the Ecco books hardcover edition expected September 10, 2019.What came to mind while reading The Divers' Game was the old Hindu parable of an elephant being examined by blind men. Each of them has their own unique "view" of the object which is being examined and that view is dependent on which portion of the animal they are touching. The one holding the trunk thinks it is a snake, the one holding the tail thinks it is a rope, the side of the animal is a wall, the leg is a tree trunk, etc. So it is with The Divers' Game, where we are given 4 different views of a dystopia in 4 short stories that have a small degree of character crossover.Review in ProgressTrivia and Links*Yes, I stole the subtitle idea from Umberto Eco's "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt"