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Harrow : a novel / Joy Williams.

Summary:
"In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as we know it is dead, the pursuit of happiness fades into insignificance, food is scarce, and even time doesn't progress in an organized fashion. Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen--a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she washes up at a "resort" on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call "Big Girl." In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this "baggy seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth"? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, delivered with Williams's searing, deadpan wit, their intertwined tale of paradise lost serves to commit us anew to that paradise, and to their reasons--against all reasonableness--to try and recover something of it"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525657569
  • ISBN: 0525657568
  • Physical Description: ix, 203 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Subject: Boarding schools > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Resorts > Fiction.
Dystopias.
Genre: Fantasy fiction.

Available copies

  • 17 of 18 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 18 total copies.
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Abington Community Library FICTION WILLIAM (Text) 50687011740969 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION WILLIAM (Text) 50686016088994 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F WIL (Text) 33240004938968 Adult Fiction Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC WILLIAMS, JOY (Text) 36446002049560 Adult Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Williams (Text) 39427103605754 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Littlestown Library FF FIC WILLIAMS JOY (Text) 35740635770688 Science Fiction/Fantasy Available -
Lower Macungie Library FIC WIL (Text) 33400001538563 Adult Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults WIL Supernatural (Text) 33454005837919 Reading Room Available -
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Adults WIL Fiction (Text) 34318001193420 Adult Area Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library FIC (Text) 30003009066927 Adult Fiction Available -


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