Goodhouse by Peyton Marshall
What would happen if you could see clearly into the genetic make-up of your friends and family? America at the end of the 21st century: 17-year-old James doesn't even know what his real name is, though he feels if someone uses it one day, he'll know it's his. Kindness to others is not an option at Goodhouse, a brutally run corrective school for boys with criminal genes. Awaiting him over the barbed wires of the school are the Zeros, a religious group who aim to rid the planet of impure boys like those at Goodhouse. But for James, his greatest threat is not the fundamentalists outside. His dream of walking through the gates as a civilian may yet be destroyed by the much deadlier threat from within...A bold, visionary tale of a forseeable future where genetic profiling is meant to prevent crime, but instead becomes a tool for oppression, Goodhouse poses urgent questions about freedom and slavery and what it means to be alive.
"A marvel - a glorious combination of page-turning literary thriller and challenging examination of freedom, destiny, and the thorny ideals of faith and science" Eleanor Brown, NYT-bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS "GOODHOUSE is thrilling and wonderful and dark" Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA "A page-turning account of one boy's journey through a vivid and dangerous world" Karen Joy Fowler, author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES "Peyton Marshall's debut is a page-turner of the highest order, the kind of book you don't want to finish but cannot stop reading." James Scott, author of The Kept "This is one of the most intellectually thrilling and beautifully unsettling novels I've read in years." Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi "Like Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Goodhouse is a gripping excursion to a vividly imagined and profoundly disturbing future. Peyton Marshall has written an unforgettable first novel, a work of striking originality, empathy and skill." Jennifer Haigh, author of Faith "Goodhouse is a debut of extraordinary power and vision, and Peyton Marshall is a new voice for the ages." Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth "Goodhouse grabbed me by the throat and lifted me off the ground and held me suspended there until its final sentence. Then the book began its real work on me: haunting my waking thoughts, invading my dreams. (...) This is an astonishing novel." Antoine Wilson, author of Panorama City, and The Interloper "Magnificently written ...powerful" New York Times Book Review "A fantastic cautionary tale that will leave you muttering "one more chapter" as the night stretches on. We highly recommend it" SciFiNow
PEYTON MARSHALL is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. GOODHOUSE is partly inspired by her research into the Preston School of Industry, a juvenile reform school founded in California in 1890. Its aim was to elevate the minds of young offenders and provide them with job skills that would keep them out of adult prison. The memoirs of former studens evidence a much more brutal experience. Marshall lives in Oregon with her husband, the writer Pauls Toutonghi. GOODHOUSE is her debut novel. Find out more at www.peytonmarshall.com
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857521903 |
| ISBN 10 | 085752190X |
| Titel | Goodhouse |
| Autor | Peyton Marshall |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2015-01-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 336 |
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