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The Flame Alphabet

Name: The Flame Alphabet
Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SKU: 9780307739971
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Contributors:

Ben Marcus

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Genre:

Science-Fiction

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Fiction

Book Subcategory:

Literary, Thrillers, Family Life

Book Topic:

Suspense

Series:

Vintage Contemporaries

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Release Date:

2012-11-13

ISBN 13:

9780307739971

Weight:

0.51 lbs

Size:

8.01 x 5.28 x 0.63 inches

Pages:

304

Description

In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones.

The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.

About the Author
Ben Marcus is the author of three books of fiction: The Age of Wire and String, Notable American Women, and The Flame Alphabet, and he is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. His stories have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Granta, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Tin House, and Conjunctions. He has received the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, three Pushcart Prizes, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York with his wife and children.

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