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The Seed Collectors
Scarlett Thomas
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Description for The Seed Collectors
Paperback. The seductive new novel from the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y, full of life, death, desire and family trees Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 262.
What secrets are hiding in your family tree? Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment . . . A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers.
What secrets are hiding in your family tree? Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment . . . A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847679222
SKU
V9781847679222
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33
About Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her other novels include Bright Young Things, PopCo, The End of Mr.Y which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, and Our Tragic Universe. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent.
Reviews for The Seed Collectors
Entrancing
NEIL GAIMAN A family saga of human fallibility, love, eccentricity, sex, spirituality, and of a lost, legendary, coincidentally lethal route to absolute transcendence . . . [Thomas] is a splendid novelist
WILLIAM GIBSON Positively luminous - funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating
DAILY MAIL
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NEIL GAIMAN A family saga of human fallibility, love, eccentricity, sex, spirituality, and of a lost, legendary, coincidentally lethal route to absolute transcendence . . . [Thomas] is a splendid novelist
WILLIAM GIBSON Positively luminous - funny, daring, fizzing with ideas and altogether captivating
DAILY MAIL
A far-out botanical adventure in ... Read more