{"product_id":"no-transfer-9781960241108","title":"No Transfer","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnly the cream of the crop get into ultra-prestigious Modern University, and students are virtually guaranteed powerful and high-paid positions upon graduation. Drinking and sex are allowed, and even encouraged, and everything students need - classrooms, restaurants, shopping, and bars - is self-contained inside the school's fifty-story high-rise tower. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there's a catch. Once you start, you can't drop out or transfer to another school. And behind its glossy exterior, Modern 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 ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual parts campus novel, satire on modern education, and gripping horror story, \u003cem\u003e No Transfer\u003c\/em\u003e (1967) earned rave reviews from the nation's leading critics. This reprint, the first in half a century, includes a new afterword by the author, who wrote it at age 20 while a student at Michigan State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable first novel . . . shockingly convincing.\" -\u003cem\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Walton is called by his publishers 'a genuine voice of his time' and they claim this novel is already being compared to \u003cem\u003eLord of the Flies\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Lottery\u003c\/em\u003e. I don't doubt it a bit.\" - \u003cem\u003eArizona Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An academic shocker with quite a hook; one reads it in a state of frozen uneasiness. This is a contemporary chiller of and for our time, or just beyond - the achievement tests of 1984?\" - \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A low-key horror story that satirizes present-day big-university education. This chilling story builds to a strong climax.\" - \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wanta take a 'trip' without LSD? Step right this way, baby . . . To say that this book is a shocker is to low rate it.\" - \u003cem\u003eAmerican Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Just a note. While reading this one keep in mind that it's fiction.\" - \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chilling and subtle . . . completely unexpected . . . A half-mad world of the young with an Orwellian flavor and an aura of believability.\" - \u003cem\u003eSacramento Bee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50501122031890,"sku":"9781960241108","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d20af500-2d32-45de-80af-72be08b936de.jpg?v=1730765907","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-transfer-9781960241108","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}