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Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel
Due Preparations for the Plague A Novel
Author: Janette Turner Hospital
"In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital 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 loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha,...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393325737
ISBN-10: 0393325733
Publication Date: 7/2004
Pages: 408
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Once again, Ms. Hospital delivers a dark, thriller full of memorable characters. Her stories ring as true as the headlines. They are fleshed out without being leaden with too much detail to slow the pacing. Quite a balanacing act for tight rope suspense.
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[from the back cover] Lowell, a single father, is haunted by the memory of a hijacked transatlantic flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager. Samantha, one of the children released from the plane before the hostages were killed, tries to pull Lowell into her obsessive search for the truth abouth Air France 64. ...is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions and complicities in the age of terrorism.


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