Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393325733 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hawthorne is also tormented by the fact that his estranged father, an intelligence agent, may have had some knowledge of the hijacking before it happened. The dysfunctional life of Lowell Hawthorne, a divorced father of two children, is rooted in his mother's death on that flight when he was a teenager ("every year, as September approaches, he believes he has put it all behind him, he believes he has laid the ghosts, he believes he will feel nothing but a dull, almost pleasurable sort of pain, like a toothache. This latest novel is an enthralling tale about the intertwined fates of the survivors and the relatives of those who perished on Flight 64, hijacked by terrorists in 1987. In this age of global terrorism, Hos
Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.. "In this bracing, visceral thrillerHospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience."San Francisco Chronicle Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic lo
Notwithstanding, it's a five star read This review is for the W. W. Norton & Company hardcover first edition published in July 2003, Notwithstanding, it's a five star read Gregory Bascom This review is for the W. W. Norton & Company hardcover first edition published in July 2003, 401 pages. This edition does not have a reader's guide. DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE is Janette Turner Hospital's tenth novel. She also has published five collections. 01 pages. This edition does not have a reader's guide. DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE is Janette Turner Hospital's tenth novel. She also has published five collections. A Brilliant & Literary Psychological Thriller For Our Times Albert Camus wrote, "There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise." "Due Preparations For The Plague" centers on an incident as terrible as a war or plague, and as surprising, for hundreds of peop. Fine "Literary Thriller" Hospital has done a fine job grasping hold of this reader and not letting him go. There were a few aspects I didn't like -- all those quotations from other authors -- Camus, Defoe, Borges, etc. -- at the start of sections (Why do academics and literary types like