Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 11:04:58 -0500
From: "Charles K. MacKay" <ckmackay-AT-postoffice.ptd.net>
Subject: Re: political novels


Try _The Dispossesed_ by Ursula LeGuin. It's sci-fi, but well worth it.

Regards,

Charlie



Pete Farruggio wrote:
> 
> Could anyone recommend some good "political" novels?  I'm looking for
> something to recommend to fellow students that we could use on a
> comparative lit project, something that would give us an inside look (an
> ethnography) at a given society.
> 
> I'm looking for something that's well written, not didactic, but that shows
> working class people or communists as they live and deal with life, that
> shows us their world from the inside.  I'd especially like something that
> involves literacy or education in the story...but the main requirement is
> that it be a good read, and that it be in English, and that it be fairly
> available in the US.
> 
> I haven't read much fiction in recent years, and I've never read much
> political fiction, so I need help.  The recent discussions about 1984, etc.
> made me feel there are some on this list who might help
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Pete Farruggio
> 
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