Parasites Like Us

Adam Johnson

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Black Swan
01 May 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013, Adam Johnson's highly acclaimed debut novel- Some lost civilizations are better left buried ...
*The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON-

winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013

After trashing his cherry '72 Corvette, illegally breaking into an ancient burial site, and snacking on 12,000-year-old popcorn, Hank Hannah finds that he's inadvertently unleashed the apocalypse. Hank, a professor of anthropology back in the days when there were still co-eds to ogle and now one of only twelve humans still alive on earth, decides to record the last days of human civilization for whomever - or whatever - might replace us.

By: Adam Johnson
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 273g
ISBN: 9781784160081
ISBN 10: 1784160083
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 May 2014
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adam Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His second novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in San Francisco with his family.