Goodhouse - Couverture souple

Marshall, Peyton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857521918 ISBN 13 : 9780857521910

Editeur : Doubleday, 2015

Synopsis

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 propos du livre

Revue de presse

"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)

Biographie de l'auteur

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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0857521918
• ISBN 13: 9780857521910
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336