M. T. Anderson is the author of the Newbery Honor Book Elf Dog and Owl Head, illustrated by Junyi Wu; the National Book Award winner The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party and Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves, which were both Michael L. Printz Honor Books; the National Book Award Finalist Feed; the National Book Award Finalist The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, cocreated with Eugene Yelchin; Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, illustrated by Andrea Offermann; Symphony for the City of the Dead; Landscape with Invisible Hand; and many other books for children and young adults. M. T. Anderson lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Subversive, vigorously conceived, painfully situated at the
juncture where funny crosses into tragic, FEED demonstrates that
young-adult novels are alive and well and able to deliver a
jolt.
—New York Times
"Another book that can be added to the list entitled 'YA Novels I'd
Never Heard of But Which Turn Out to Be Modern Classics' and Feed
may well turn out to be the best of the lot . . . Funny, serious,
sad, superbly realized."
—Nick Hornby, The Believer
M.T. Anderson has created the perfect device for an ingenious
satire of corporate America and our present-day value system...Like
those in a funhouse mirror, the reflections the novel shows us may
be ugly and distorted, but they are undeniably ourselves.
—The Horn Book (starred review)
The crystalline realization of this wildly dystopic future carries
in it obvious and enormous implications for today's readers —
satire at its finest.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that
may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of
corporate-and media-dominated culture.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
What really puts the teeth in the bite...is Anderson's brilliant
satiric vision in the seamless creation of this imagined but
believable world. The writing is relentlessly funny, clever in its
observations and characters....
—Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review)
A gripping, intriguing, and unique cautionary novel.
—School Library Journal
Many teens will feel a haunting familiarity about this future
universe.
—Booklist
Both hilarious and disturbing.
—Booklist Editors' Choice
In spite of its foreboding overtones, FEED is in a sense an
optimistic novel. By involving its readers in the act it suggests
is central to society's survival, the book offers hope.
—Riverbank Review
Although set in the future, Anderson's novel is a stunning
indictment of contemporary America and its ever-increasing
obsession with consumerism even in the face of impending
environmental collapse . . . the novel is both intense and grim. It
should, however, appeal strongly to mature and thoughtful readers
who care about the future of their world.
—VOYA
Disturbing yet wickedly funny, with as brilliant a use of decayed
language as Russell Hoban's post-apocalyptic RIDDLEY WALKER.
—Horn Book Fanfare, The
This dystopic vision is dark but quite believable. Sad and strong
and scary.
—Chicago Tribune
The book is fast, shrewd, slang-filled and surprisingly
engaging.
—New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year
This wickedly funny and thought-provoking novel is written in a
slang so hip it is spoken only by the characters in this book.
Teens will want to read it at least twice.
—Miami Herald
A darkly comic satire that can be read as a promise or a
warning.
—Detroit Free Press
The flashes of humor as well as the cleverly imagined grim future
world should quickly draw readers into this look at teenage love
and loss, and at consumerism carried to its logical extreme.
—Kliatt Book Review
The scariest part of FEED's brilliantly conceived futuristic
dystopia is that much of it isn't futuristic . . . To list all the
prescient details in this novel would require taking something from
nearly every page.
—Riverbank Review
Frightening in its realistic depiction of what is possible in a
culture addicted to information, this novel is a guaranteed
conversation-starter.
—Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year
It's exhilarating to decipher Anderson's futuristic adolescent
slang, but his story is a serious one. He has an uncanny gift for
depicting how teenagers see the world.
—BookPage
This language sets a perfect tone for the story of a teenage boy
growing up in a frighteningly futuristic world . . . The scariest
thing of all is its unnerving plausibility.
—Raleigh News and Observer
Surely one of the most prescient novels of last 20 years.
—Lev Grossman
As with the best futuristic fiction, it's scary how little needs to
be exaggerated.
—Newsday
The novel is chilling in the way only a well crafted and darkly
writ satire can be.
—DigBoston.com
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