Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel

by Janette Turner Hospital

Overview

"In this bracing, visceral thriller...Hospital continually locates, in human events, the unyieldingly human experience."—San Francisco Chronicle

Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393325737
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	430
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Janette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

"Unputdownable...does for the post-September 11 era what John le Carré did for the Cold War."

Time Out New York

"This is a rich and powerfully imagined novel of chilling timeliness."

Rosellen Brown

"One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today."

Times Literary Supplement

"A writer of high tension and terrifying allure."

|Los Angeles Times

"Janette Turner Hospital is a writer of consummate craft and visionary insight. She is always surprising, and seems always to be renewing herself as one of our major writers."

Joyce Carol Oates