Every Boy Should Have a Man [Paperback]

Allens concise books power lies within its understated irony, never more heavy-handed than a preachers admonition that a world without mans is a world without us all. The plain narrative and relationship between boy and female man, rounded out with humor and occasional (sometimes literal) bite, promises to be a sleeper favorite among speculative audiences. Allen&throws caution to the wind with his bizarre but exquisitely composed fable that uses transhumanism as the prism to reflect on the nature of humanity&Its also intellectually curious and rather cutting in many of its conceptual and cultural assessments. Its a world where man is not only pet, but also meat, where religion, wars and empires are just as backward as they are in our own world, and where worlds collide with a temperamental angst that is as uncomfortable as it is alluring. Much like Pierre Boulles 1963 novel? Imaginative, versatile, and daring Allen ( In?