The Pesthouse

Name: The Pesthouse
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Jim Crace
ISBN: 9780330445634

Jim Crace

04/01/2008
Picador

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Couverture de The Pesthouse par Jim Crace

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur The Pesthouse finds the author not just on his own best form, but arguably the best form any English writer has shown in the last couple of years Spectator A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young, bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that love, courage and determination can endure even as a country breaks slowly apart. Evoking the cracked terrain of a depleted America, Crace proves himself a fine stylist, sensitive to the cadence of every sentence Financial Times Entirely compelling. The story is a gripping, harrowing adventure tale and Crace s language is extraordinary . . . The Pesthouse resonates like an unresolved chord New Statesman Gripping, exciting and oddly romantic Daily Mail Biographie de l'auteur Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year; shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, and Six. His novels have been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was elected to the Royal Society of Literature.