Publication

1982 - Viking Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,500 words, Guess

Page Count

222 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivegorsaga00duff
  • ISBN-100670346551
  • ISBN-139780670346554
  • LibraryThing1570735
  • Library of Congress Control Number81069974
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780670346554
  • Open LibraryOL3790983M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6054.U4 G6 1982

Description

1981, When Norman Forrester of the Defence Ministry's experimental institute effects a successful fertilisation of a female gorilla a with human semen, the infant that is born, Gordon, known as Gor, is his son in two senses. But Gor's parentage remains a secret. In Forester's Britain he has no legal existence as an individual because his existence has never been divulged to the government data bank. In two sense Gor is 'non-person'. Operated on so that he is capable of speech, Gor grows through boyhood and adolescence into a strong, intelligent youth. when he discovers his true identity, he is desolated by his outcast destiny, but ultimately finds a home amongst some of the exiles from a computer-dominated class-oriented society. Maureen Duffy's novel offers both an enthralling, fast-moving narrative and a vivid parable of the individual's struggle to win acceptance from his fellows and to overcome the forces that seek to destroy human individuality in any age.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Gor sagaViking Press1982-01-01

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