Book description
'The Pesthouse finds the author not just on his own best form, but
arguably the best form any English writer has shown in the last couple
of years' Spectator A devastated America exists in an imagined future.
Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its
refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of
safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young,
bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that love, courage
and determination can endure even as a country breaks slowly apart.
'Evoking the cracked terrain of a depleted America, Crace proves himself
a fine stylist, sensitive to the cadence of every sentence' Financial
Times 'Entirely compelling. The story is a gripping, harrowing adventure
tale and Crace's language is extraordinary . . . The Pesthouse resonates
like an unresolved chord' New Statesman 'Gripping, exciting and oddly
romantic' Daily Mail
Jim Crace is the author of Continent, The Gift of Stones, Arcadia,
Signals of Distress, Quarantine (1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year;
shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Being Dead (2001 National Book
Critics' Circle Award), The Devil's Larder, and Six. His novels have
been translated into twenty-six languages. In 1999 Jim Crace was
elected to the Royal Society of Literature.
