The Passage - Brossura

Cronin, Justin

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ISBN 10: 0345525221 ISBN 13: 9780345525222

Casa editrice: Random House USA, 2011

Riassunto

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear―of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey―spanning miles and decades―towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.

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Recensione:

“Read this book and the ordinary world disappears.”—Stephen King

“[A] blockbuster . . . astutely plotted and imaginative.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Don’t wait to dive into The Passage. . . . Simmering in the background of this frightening thriller . . . is a heartfelt portrayal of the human capability to fight, endure and hope for a better world.”—USA Today
 
“Engrossing . . . By the third chapter, trash was piling up in our house because I was too scared to take out the garbage at night.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
 
“Mythic storytelling.”—San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

Justin Cronin is the author of Mary and O’Neil, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writer’s Award. A professor of English at Rice University, he lives with his family in Houston, Texas.

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• Editore: Random House USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0345525221
• ISBN 13: 9780345525222
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 871