**'****Du Maurier-tastic'_GUARDIAN_** **'Deliciously sinister'_HEAT_** ** ****'A clever, creepy read'_SUNDAY EXPRESS_** ** _ _****_ _**Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary ex
One Hundred Times to China
β Scribed by Lloyd Kropp
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012;1979
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 241 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Black-robed priests roam the countryside with shotguns. The Green Legionnaires break into houses. Acid rains ruin the forest of America, as hordes of refugees from the desolate northern cities travel south for the most terrible of winters.
For Arthur Ferrier and his family, the pleasant town of South Haven has long been home. But what was once so familiar and comfortable has now been dissolved into a frightening strangeness. The local newspaper stops delivering, the power fails, and then come the food riots and the closing of the hospitals. For reasons no one really seems to understand, the centers of civilized life are breaking apart all around them. But Arthur remembers his father's dream, and he fingers the key around his neck--a key that opens a lock to a door far away in the northern mountains, a place where he and Marilyn, his wife, hope to live and raise their children in peace.
Thus begins the odyssey of the Ferrier family as they pursue their last hope:...
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