Cold Earth by Sarah Moss
THE EXCEPTIONAL DEBUT FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE FELL 'I revelled in Cold Earth. Brilliant' Penelope Lively 'Chilling and remarkable... Moss is a master at evoking suspense' Guardian On the west coast of Greenland, a team of archaeologists searching for traces of lost Viking settlements receives news from back home: a deadly pandemic has swept across the world. As the Arctic winter approaches and their communications with the outside world fail, the six abandoned souls are left fighting for survival, writing letters to loved ones they may never receive. Cold Earth is a chilling, haunting and scarily prescient tale of grief, isolation and the will to survive. 'Unnerving, ambitious... utterly absorbing and - appropriately enough - very chilling' Daily Mail
Moss is such a master at evoking the suspense of both the dread and the anticipation of this situation that readers will be tempted to turn to the end of the book to relieve anxietiesTry to control yourself, if only for the sake of appreciating her technique -- Jane Smiley * Guardian *
A sure-fire success -- Margaret Drabble * Guardian *
Moss's stark writing delivers stinging splashes of cold water. Every element of the novel is distilled for purity of purpose. Holding it, the white cover and the blue edges imitate an artefact carved from ice * The Times *
[An] unnerving, ambitious debut ... it's promising stuff: utterly absorbing and - appropriately enough - very chilling * Daily Mail *
A thought-provoking, suspenseful work that leaves the reader in no doubt about the fragility of the human condition: not just of the individual struggling to survive a hostile environment, but of a species that is changing its home planet in potentially deadly ways * Observer *
A masterful study of the panic brought about by total isolation * Metro *
A brilliantly tense mix of archaeology and conflicting personalities -- Penelope Lively * Guardian *
A sure-fire success -- Margaret Drabble * Guardian *
Moss's stark writing delivers stinging splashes of cold water. Every element of the novel is distilled for purity of purpose. Holding it, the white cover and the blue edges imitate an artefact carved from ice * The Times *
[An] unnerving, ambitious debut ... it's promising stuff: utterly absorbing and - appropriately enough - very chilling * Daily Mail *
A thought-provoking, suspenseful work that leaves the reader in no doubt about the fragility of the human condition: not just of the individual struggling to survive a hostile environment, but of a species that is changing its home planet in potentially deadly ways * Observer *
A masterful study of the panic brought about by total isolation * Metro *
A brilliantly tense mix of archaeology and conflicting personalities -- Penelope Lively * Guardian *
SARAH MOSS was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of two novels; Cold Earth, and Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847081384 |
| ISBN 10 | 184708138X |
| Title | Cold Earth |
| Author | Sarah Moss |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2010-06-03 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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