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The Society of Others 

by

William Nicholson

The Society of Others

(2004)
A novel by

William Nicholson

"Extraordinary, a sort of wild combination of Kafka and THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ... The reader will not escape unchanged."
Jill Paton Walsh


"A novel I would dearly love to have written... Exciting, funny, wise, and beautifully written... Nicholson has to my mind established himself with this first work of adult fiction as one of the best novelists around."
Piers Paul Read


 

He has nowhere to go. So he goes there. The narrator of THE SOCIETY OF OTHERS is an alienated young man who sees no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To get his family off his back, he embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure around Europe. But his journey soon turns into an orgy of violence. With all the pace and thrust of a thriller, THE SOCIETY OF OTHERS is also a moral fable, bursting with art, poetry, music and ideas. A journey. Just not the usual kind. I'm not a bad person. I'm a bad person. I didn't mean to kill the man in the reading room. I did mean to kill the man in the reading room. What happened afterwards wasn't my fault, don't blame me. It was my fault. Blame me. He has nowhere to go. So he goes there. It's a journey. Just not the usual kind.
 
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January 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0385513275Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 0-385-51327-5 / 978-0-385-51327-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
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January 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0385660847Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 0-385-66084-7 / 978-0-385-66084-6 (USA edition)
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2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B0014BYA28Title: The Society Of Others
Author(s): Nicholson William
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2004 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0385606826Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 0-385-60682-6 / 9781845057046 (USA edition)
Publisher: Doubleday
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Paperback Editions

January 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0385660855Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 0-385-66085-5 / 978-0-385-66085-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Anchor Canada
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January 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1400078210Title: The Society of Others: A Novel
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 1-4000-7821-0 / 978-1-4000-7821-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Anchor
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May 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 055277202XTitle: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 0-552-77202-X / 978-0-552-77202-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Black Swan
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Audio Editions

January 2005 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 1419326783Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
ISBN: 1-4193-2678-3 / 978-1-4193-2678-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Recorded Books
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2004 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: B000RDGMG6Title: The Society of Others
Author(s): William Nicholson
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December 2007 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0012DZ32YTitle: The Society of Others: A Novel
Author(s): William Nicholson
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