Parasites Like Us
A Novel
$35.10
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
26 October 2004
Summary
The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Master’s Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award)
Hailed as “remarkable” by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind’s quest for its …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142004777 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0142004774 |
| Author: | Adam Johnson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 26 October 2004 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 136mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
A grim romp of a first novel… great ingenuity and bravado … an artifact of real ambition and originality. ( The New York Times Book Review )
A fantastically twisted and terrifying first novel. (Esquire)A grim romp of a first novel… great ingenuity and bravado … an artifact of real ambition and originality. (The New York Times Book Review)
About The Author
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper’s, Missouri Review, and New England Review, as well as Best New American Voices. He is the author of the short story collection Emporium and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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