They

Marya Mannes

earliest edition we have, 1971 Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 1971 160 pages

There has been a totalitarian takeover by the young. The journal, addressed to the You who will become They, is kept by Kate, one of five middle-aged men and women who are isolated from the rest of the world and out of contact with it except for their computerized check-ups. Sixty-five is the final cut-off. Kate tells their story which is actually a series of exchanges between this small group of artists, writers, mu...

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