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.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Crace, Jim
ISBN: 9780307278951
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.06 x 0.81
Number Of Pages: 255
Publication Year: 2008

The Pesthouse

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