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'They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past?
'Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA.
'One day the city's residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations - a factory whistle. GoFA's owner, world-famous tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He's going to defeat the internet's dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948. Those whose jobs and lives have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed" by living as if the internet and the smartphone had never been invented.
'The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Book club notes available from publisher's website.
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Dedication : 'To the disrupted'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Return of the 1940s : Dennis Glover’s Satirical New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 44)
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel -
Factory 19 by Dennis Glover Review : An Orwellian Dystopia in Tasmania's Near Future
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 November 2020;
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel -
Dennis Glover, Factory 19
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 November - 4 December 2020;
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel'When faced with our difficult present, we sometimes turn to the past and swaddle ourselves in nostalgia for whichever time our personal tastes elect as having been “better”. Factory 19, Dennis Glover’s second novel, is a story in which this impulse is enacted on a grand scale.' (Introduction)
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Dennis Glover, Factory 19
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 28 November - 4 December 2020;
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel'When faced with our difficult present, we sometimes turn to the past and swaddle ourselves in nostalgia for whichever time our personal tastes elect as having been “better”. Factory 19, Dennis Glover’s second novel, is a story in which this impulse is enacted on a grand scale.' (Introduction)
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Return of the 1940s : Dennis Glover’s Satirical New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January–February no. 428 2021; (p. 44)
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel -
Factory 19 by Dennis Glover Review : An Orwellian Dystopia in Tasmania's Near Future
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 November 2020;
— Review of Factory 19 2020 single work novel
Awards
- 2021 shortlisted Russell Prize for Humour Writing
- Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
- 2022