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The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus
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Description for The Flame Alphabet
Paperback. In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighbourhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in ... Read more
A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children's speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighbourhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents' sickness, unaware that in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
214g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847086242
SKU
V9781847086242
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-88
About Ben Marcus
BEN MARCUS is the author of The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, The Flame Alphabet and Leaving the Sea. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Granta, Harper's and the Paris Review. Marcus has received a Whiting Writers' Award, a Berlin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is on the faculty at Columbia University in New ... Read more
Reviews for The Flame Alphabet
The Flame Alphabet drags the contemporary novel kicking, screaming, and foaming at the mouth back towards the track it should be following
Tom McCarthy A genuinely new thing in an age of recycling. Is the novel history? Not while people like this are still taking risks on it
Tim Martin, Books of the Year
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Tom McCarthy A genuinely new thing in an age of recycling. Is the novel history? Not while people like this are still taking risks on it
Tim Martin, Books of the Year
Daily ... Read more