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The Pesthouse eBooks
by Jim Crace
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The Pesthouse Summary
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"A writer of hallucinatory skill." —John Updike “Crace is one of Britain’s most remarkable writers.” —Richard Eder, The New York Times “One will watch with eagerness, and bated breath, the progress of this strong, inventive, and above all courageous novelist.” —John Banville, The New York Review of Books “[Crace] has always exhibited an uncanny gift for tapping into the horrors that wake us, heart pounding, in the middle of the night. He is fascinated by the extremes of existence, and he knows our demons by name…. It’s a tribute to Crace’s skill that we so rapidly get our bearings in [The Pesthouse’s] radically altered landscape…. Crace can write amazingly well…. When he’s on…he’s stellar.” –Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review “[Crace’s] characters beguile readers with their emotional authenticity and detailed psychologies. His prose carries the contours of a Donatello sculpture as Crace chisels gracefully flowing sentences with eloquence, precision and the occasional cheeky hint of the impish.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Jim Crace is a writer about plain things, but he writes about them in a way that’s both startling and subtle, a shimmering surface over still depths.” –Washington Post Book World "At one level, The Pesthouse is a suspenseful road novel...but at its heart, it is a meditation on deep questions about America: the costs of relentless expansion, the fate of a wasteful... |
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