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And We Will Destroy All Ugly tells the story of Rock Bailey, a defiant 19-year-old determined to preserve his virginity amidst the post-war nightlife of Los Angeles jazz clubs, and his clash with the madman Dr Marcus Schutz, who has founded a colony where ugliness is a genetic crime.

Fights, car chases, kidnappings and murders follow one after another in the novel like dominoes. Boris Vian's lyrical and surreal stories give way to a frenzied fantasy of eugenics and homogeneity - a parodic premonition of the plastic surgery that is destined to rule Hollywood for decades to come, as well as comic book-style reflections on Nazi Germany's vision of the master race. It's a narrative cocktail of ingredients such as Raymond Chandler, H.G. Wells, the novel Brave New World and the film Barbarella.