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The Pesthouse is a self-consciously mythical journey, the journey east deliberately reversing the western spread of the original European settlers.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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The Pesthouse is a self-consciously mythical journey, the journey east deliberately reversing the western spread of the original European settlers.
Archive 2008-02-01 Tim Stretton 2008
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Crace knows these rules better than the rest of us: The Pesthouse is his ninth novel.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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Crace knows these rules better than the rest of us: The Pesthouse is his ninth novel.
Archive 2008-02-01 Tim Stretton 2008
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Although Crace is not a science fiction writer, The Pesthouse would probably fit under our genre's tent.
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The Pesthouse was very fine, but "The Road done right"?
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I'd say The Pesthouse reminded me most closely of Cold Mountain, but if I were to recommend another book to a fan of Cold Mountain, I'd go with The Amalgamation Polka before The Pesthouse.
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Jim Crace and Cormac McCarthy got even more post-apocalyptic in "The Pesthouse" and "The Road," respectively.
Rick Moody 'Takes The Inane And Makes It Sincere' In 'The Four Fingers Of Death' 2010
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It's looking like 2007 will be literature's Year of the Apocalypse, with The Road winning the Pulitzer AND the Oprah Book Club pick, Jim Crace's Pesthouse, Matthew Sharpe's Jamestown, my book, and so on.
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The Pesthouse is part of the long tradition of post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction, the brand of speculative fiction most likely to find a mainstream audience think, for instance, of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008
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