John Lillibud

286 pp. "Francis Gordon Hurrell (1885-1957) UK author whose second novel, John Lillibud (1934) plays sophisticatedly with echoes and doublings of plot an theme and Identity, in a manner that shifts Equipoisally between fantasy and science fiction. A young writer becomes a purveyor of Inventions, one of which is a cosmetic plastic which transforms one's face (and perhaps one's identity); by creating a transformative nose for himself, the writer "becomes" in secret a much more successful author named Richard (or Dick) Whittington, and in this guise becomes involved with a cadre of deaf-mute revolutionaries called The Voice which broadcasts propaganda messages via Telepathy."