The Pesthouse View By Jim Crace
| Title | : | The Pesthouse |
| Author | : | Jim Crace |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 272 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0385520751 |
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 other and an unexpected love Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, 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 other and an unexpected love Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland The machines have stopped The government has collapsed Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left passage on a ship to Europe.Franklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America Confronted by bandits rounding up men for slavery, finding refuge in the Ark, a religious community that makes bizarre demands on those they shelter, Franklin and Margaret find their wariness of each other replaced by deep trust and an intimacy neither one has ever experienced before The Pesthouse is Jim Crace s most compelling novel to date Rich in its understanding of America s history and ethos, it is a paean to the human spirit
about Author
James Jim Crace is an award winning English writer His novel Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Harvest won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Crace grew up in Forty Hill, an area at the far northern point of Greater London, close to Enfield where Cr James Jim Crace is an award winning English writer His novel Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Harvest won the International Impac Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Crace grew up in Forty Hill, an area at the far northern point of Greater London, close to Enfield where Crace attended Enfield Grammar School He studied for a degree at the Birmingham College of Commerce now part of Birmingham City University , where he was enrolled as an external student of the University of London After securing a BA Hons in English Literature in 1968, he travelled overseas with the UK organization Voluntary Services Overseas VSO , working in Sudan Two years later he returned to the UK, and worked with the BBC, writing educational programmes From 1976 to 1987 he worked as a freelance journalist for The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers In 1986 Crace published Continent Continent won the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award, the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Guardian Fiction Prize This work was followed by The Gift of Stones, Arcadia, Signals of Distress, Quarantine, Being Dead and Six His most recent novel, The Pesthouse, was published in the UK in March 2007.Despite living in Britain, Crace is successful in the United States, as evidenced by the award of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999 
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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 Th
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