The Pesthouse

✍ Crace, Jim 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Picador 🌐 English ⚖ 189 KB

‘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 Pesthouse

✍ Crace, Jim 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Pan Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB

### In this postapocalyptic picaresque from Whitbread-winner Crace (for _Quarantine_), America has regressed to medieval conditions. After a forgotten eco-reaction in the distant past, the U.S. government, economy and society have collapsed. The illiterate inhabitants ride horses, fight with bo

The Pesthouse

✍ Crace, Jim 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 228 KB

The Pesthouse

✍ Crace, Jim 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Pan Macmillan 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 218 KB

### From Publishers Weekly In this postapocalyptic picaresque from Whitbread-winner Crace (for _Quarantine_), America has regressed to medieval conditions. After a forgotten eco-reaction in the distant past, the U.S. government, economy and society have collapsed. The illiterate inhabitants ride ho

The Pesthouse

📂 Standards 📅 2007 🏛 Nan A. Talese 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

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

(2007) The Pesthouse

✍ Crace, Jim 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 188 KB

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