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"""A creepily prescient tale in which anonymous mobs target artists and destroy their art for the crime of individual vision. Insidiously horrifying!""--Margaret Atwood ""Queer, English, a masterpiece.""--Hilton Als ""[A] disquieting, lean, pared-back dystopian tale . . . One element that makes the book especially disturbing is that ""they,"" whoever they are, are not a government-sanctioned group like Bradbury's firemen or Orwell's all-pervading government surveillance, but rather an unsanctioned multitude, the strength of which appears to lie not in official mandates, but rather in the swell of their ever-increasing numbers . . . It's chilling, but compellingly so.""--Lucy Scholes ""Paris Review"" ""[A] stunningly effective dystopian nightmare . . . Could there be a more fitting moment for the revival of Dick's uneasy little masterpiece than our own era of isolation, fractious culture wars, widening intolerance, and environmental decline?""--David Wright ""Library Journal (Starred Review)"" ""A tension of glinting malice pervades the narrator's episodic travels . . . here is a liberatory current of queer and nonmonogamous love and desire running counter to the increasingly stifling oppression enacted on the populace . . . Dick's dreamlike rendering of virulent conformity and a quotidian bloodthirsty anti-intellectualism still resonate. A timely reissue of English author Dick's slim dystopian fever dream.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Dick's lush, transcendent nature writing contrasts with her spare, elliptical dialogue . . . [it's] a cri de coeur against urbanization . . . They is a study of fear. Its disconcerting power lies in its dream logic and elisions--the unexplained background, the offstage violence.""--Madeleine Feeny ""The Spectator"" ""Eerie, atmospheric . . . The faceless nature of the antagonists--whose philosophy, goals, and power structures are unspoken--runs counter to other mid-century dystopian tales and leaves space for interpretation . . . Dick creates a pervasive sense of dread for those who give their lives to art. This unsettling dreamlike endeavor is a worthy rediscovery.""-- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Both a dystopian fable and a stealth memoir . . . Like all robust allegories, They grants the reader the freedom to imagine any number of vivid referents for the opaque.""--Melissa Anderson ""Bookforum"" ""They is spare, troubling, eerily familiar. It evokes Yoko Ogawa's Revenge, or Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men, occupying a space between dystopia and horror. The lush landscapes are haunted by profoundly unsettling details about the forces at work--'It was no good listening for footsteps, ' the narrator tells us, 'they wore no shoes'--and all of it a backdrop for endless questions about art: What does it mean to create for no audience?""--Carmen Maria Machado ""The Guardian"" ""It's incredibly unusual to find a book this good that has been this profoundly forgotten.""--Sam Knight ""New Yorker"""