The pesthouse a novel
Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families travel 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 shu...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage Books ed. |
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| Summary: | Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States has become sparsely populated and chaotically unstable. Across the country, families travel 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.--From publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Nan A. Talese, 2007. |
| Physical Description: | 255 p. ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780307278951 (pbk.) 0307278956 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | British author Jim Crace has won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Harvest (Picador). The ¿100,000 (A$205,140) award is presented annually for a novel written in English or translated into English, and is chosen by judges from a selection of titles nominated by libraries across the world. (Bowker Author Biography) |
