The Passage (Paperback)
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This paperback edition includes:
* A sneak preview of The Twelve, coming in 2012
* A revealing interview with author Justin Cronin
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This paperback edition includes:
* A sneak preview of The Twelve, coming in 2012
* A revealing interview with author Justin Cronin
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME MAGAZINE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post Esquire U.S. News & World Report NPRs On Point St. Louis Post-Dispatch BookPage Library Journal
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amyabandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girland risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escapebut he cant stop societys collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
Born and raised in New England, Justin Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Awards for his fiction include the Stephen Crane Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is a professor of English at Rice University and lives with his wife and children in Houston, Texas.
From the Hardcover edition.
- Author:
- Cronin, Justin
- Genre:
- FICTION / Suspense
- Audience:
- General/trade
- Edition Detail:
- Reprint
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 784
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Ballantine Books
- Publish Date:
- 05/17/2011
- Copyright Year:
- 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780345504975
- Height:
- 8.5 in
- Wdth:
- 5.5 in
- Thickness:
- 1.5 in
- Unit weight:
- 1.35 lb
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What stared out as a terrific story with compelling characters, turned into a boring, tedious and downright monotonous tale. I never quit reading books, but this time I put it away and never opened it again.
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