BOOK DETAILS
Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1960241108 LIST PRICE: $17.99 US PAGES: 174 Published 2024 |
No Transfer (1967)
Stephen Walton New afterword by the Author Book Description
At the ultra-prestigious Modern University, only the cream of the crop are accepted, and those who graduate are virtually guaranteed powerful and high-paid positions. Drinking and sex are allowed, and even encouraged, and everything students need -- from classrooms to restaurants to shopping and bars -- is self-contained inside the university's 50-story high-rise tower. But there's a catch. Once you start, you can't drop out or transfer to another school. And behind its glossy exterior, the university has a terrible secret, a macabre and horrible way of ensuring its students perform to the best of their ability. When one young student, Gary Fort, witnesses the unspeakable truth of the school's "Self-Discipline Plan," he decides to fight back, and the suspense builds until the book's chilling conclusion . . . Written when the author was a 20-year-old student at Michigan State University, No Transfer (1967) earned stellar reviews from the nation's leading critics and remains a gripping horror story like no other you have ever read. This reprint, the first in half a century, includes a new afterword by the author. |
REVIEWS
"A low-key horror story that satirizes present-day big-university education. This chilling story builds to a strong climax." - Publishers Weekly
"An academic shocker with quite a hook; one reads it in a state of frozen uneasiness. This is a contemporary chiller for and of our time, or just beyond -- the achievement tests of 1984?" - Kirkus Reviews
"A remarkable first novel ... shockingly convincing." - The New York Times
“Wanta take a ‘trip’ without LSD? Step right this way, baby . . . To say that this book is a shocker is to low rate it.” - American Statesman
“Just a note. While reading this one keep in mind that it’s fiction.” - Boston Globe
“Chilling and subtle . . . completely unexpected . . . A half-mad world of the young with an Orwellian flavor and an aura of believability.” - Sacramento Bee
“Walton is called by his publishers ‘a genuine voice of his time’ and they claim this novel is already being compared to ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘The Lottery’. I don’t doubt it a bit.” - Arizona Republic
“A chilling tale.” - Fort Collins Coloradoan
“We’re not going to spoil it for you; the book’s definitely worth finding out for yourself . . . Challenges the imagination and brings the creative ability of a new writer to the fore, a writer who bears watching.” - The Courier-Post (Camden, N.J.)
"An academic shocker with quite a hook; one reads it in a state of frozen uneasiness. This is a contemporary chiller for and of our time, or just beyond -- the achievement tests of 1984?" - Kirkus Reviews
"A remarkable first novel ... shockingly convincing." - The New York Times
“Wanta take a ‘trip’ without LSD? Step right this way, baby . . . To say that this book is a shocker is to low rate it.” - American Statesman
“Just a note. While reading this one keep in mind that it’s fiction.” - Boston Globe
“Chilling and subtle . . . completely unexpected . . . A half-mad world of the young with an Orwellian flavor and an aura of believability.” - Sacramento Bee
“Walton is called by his publishers ‘a genuine voice of his time’ and they claim this novel is already being compared to ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘The Lottery’. I don’t doubt it a bit.” - Arizona Republic
“A chilling tale.” - Fort Collins Coloradoan
“We’re not going to spoil it for you; the book’s definitely worth finding out for yourself . . . Challenges the imagination and brings the creative ability of a new writer to the fore, a writer who bears watching.” - The Courier-Post (Camden, N.J.)