| The Pesthouse Contributor(s): Crace, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307278956 ISBN-13: 9780307278951 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2008 Annotation: From the two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize and shortlist candidate for the Booker comes an intimate story of characters whose lives have been uprooted and thrown into danger and misadventure. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.14" W x 8.06" (0.66 lbs) 272 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families have traveled toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe. As Franklin Lopez makes his way towards the ocean, he finds Margaret, a sick woman shunned to die in isolation. Tentatively, the two join forces, heading towards their future. With striking prose and a deep understanding of the American ethos, Jim Crace, one of our most consistently ambitious writers, creates in The Pesthouse a masterful tale of the human drive to endure. |