Chocky (Ready Readers) - Softcover

Wyndham, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140813853 ISBN 13: 9780140813852

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.

About this title

About the Author

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Benyon Harris was born in 1903. He tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising, and started writing short stories in 1925. From 1930 to 1939 he wrote stories under different names, almost exclusively for American publications, while also writing detective novels. During the war he was in the Civil Service and then the Army. In 1946 he went back to writing stories and decided to try a modified form of science fiction, a form he called 'logical fantasy'. He died in March 1969.

Review

'Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpeceted way' Guardian

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140813853
• ISBN 13: 9780140813852
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 48