The Pesthouse
β Scribed by Crace, Jim
- Book ID
- 106771604
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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βThe 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 yearsβ Spectator A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing
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Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each othe
Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each othe