Parasites Like Us
by:
Adam Johnson (author)
Hailed as ?remarkable? by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T. C. Boyle. Now, in Parasites Like Us, he takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind?s quest for his own past. Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just...
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Hailed as ?remarkable? by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T. C. Boyle. Now, in Parasites Like Us, he takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind?s quest for his own past. Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative and haunting cautionary adventure, Parasites Like Us will earn Johnson an immense audience of devoted fans.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142004777 (0142004774)
ASIN: 142004774
Publish date: October 26th 2004
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
I was disappointed by a plague with a 99.99999999% kill rate and 100% transmission and a < 1 week timetable, even though that sort of scenario crops up perpetually in fiction. And a poor male:female basis for human survival; too much literary, not enough science. On the other hand, I really liked t...
Just began [book:Alive in Necropolis] which came with an array of intriguing back-cover blurbs, including one by Adam Johnson... which reminded me that I'd liked [book:Emporium] and really liked this one.And rather than just dump some stars on it, let me point you to a very good review that lays out...