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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Paperback)
- Author: Jack Finney
- Publisher: Touchstone Books
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This classic work of science fiction served as the inspiration for four films (in 1956, 1978, 1994, and 2006). Dr. Miles Bennell has discovered a bizarre epidemic in Mill Valley, California. People are visiting his office and claiming that their nearest and dearest have been replaced by impostors who look the same, act the same, have all of the originals' memories, but are somehow, indefinably...not the same. Are these people suffering from a paranoid delusion, or have their relatives and friends been replaced by emotionless duplicates from outer space? And if their delusion is in fact the simple truth, how can Miles stop the aliens from replacing him and the woman he loves? INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is usually taken to be an allegory of the Red scare; it was written in the mid-1950s, when people were genuinely afraid that their seemingly normal, all-American neighbors might actually be Communists in disguise. Although that specific fear has passed, fear of the alien among us has not, which makes the novel still relevant and genuinely chilling today.
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- Genre: Fiction & Literature Themes, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Subgenre: Alien Beings, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Human Qualities & Behavior, Politics, War & Military
- Date Published: April 01, 1998
- Release Date: April 01, 1998
- Publisher: Touchstone Books
- Author: Jack Finney
- Pages: 216
- Format: Paperback
Additional Information
- DPCI: 248-06-7143
- ASIN: B002MK4YUI
- Catalog #: 11516543
- ISBN: 9780684852584
- Item can be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.55 pound.
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