AuthorDennis Glover
PublisherBlack Inc.
Publication date
2020
ISBN9781760641764

Factory 19 is a 2020 novel by Australian author Dennis Glover.[1]

The narrator of the story is Paul Ritchey, who developed an allergy to digital technology, and relocates to a fictionalised Hobart.[1] The city had previously been popular tourist attraction due to its "Gallery of Future Art" set up by billionaire Dundas Faussett.[2] Faussett closes the gallery and Hobart becomes a ghost town. Two years later, Faussett reappears to create "Factory 19", an factory complex with worker residences that are modelled on life in March 1948.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Callil, Jack (27 November 2020). "Factory 19 by Dennis Glover review – an Orwellian dystopia in Tasmania's near future". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  2. ^ Jack Cameron Stanton (29 January 2021). "Welcome to the new Tasmania - a haven for Luddites". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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