Ballard's Super-Cannes or Tom McCarthy's Remainder or John McGregor's If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things or Jim Crace's The Pesthouse. |
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His latest novel, The Pesthouse, is set in a distant future, in a very different USA from the one that exists now. |
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British novelist Jim Crace is the author of Quarantine, Being Dead, and The Pesthouse, among his dozen books. |
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Set in a post-apocalyptic America of plagues and fear, ecological disaster and moral blight, The Pesthouse is a vision of the American dream gone horribly awry. |
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Even his latest book, The Pesthouse, bears testimony to that. |
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