The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Mon, 05/14/2007 - 13:37 — Anonymous
Whitbread-winner Crace ("Quarantine") imagines a future post-apocalyptic America in which society has collapsed and its inhabitants scratch out a meager living by any primitive means necessary. The only reasonable hope for survival is a difficult trip east through the environmentally devastated land and passage by ship to Europe. []
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