The Passage
A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
(Sprache: Englisch)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction."
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction."NOW A FOX TV SERIES!
NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library Journal
"It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy-abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape-but he can't stop society's collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world.
Look for the entire Passage trilogy:
THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS
Praise for The Passage
"[A] blockbuster."-The New York Times Book Review
"Mythic storytelling."-San Francisco Chronicle
"Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . The Passage can stand proudly next to Stephen King's apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy's The Road: a story about human beings trying to generate new hope in a world from which all hope has long since been burnt."-Time
"The type of big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night."-The Dallas Morning News
"Addictive."-Men's
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"Cronin's unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind."-Parade
"Cronin's unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind."-Parade
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oneBefore she became the Girl from Nowhere the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.
The day Amy was born, her mother, Jeanette, was nineteen years old. Jeanette named her baby Amy for her own mother, who d died when Jeanette was little, and gave her the middle name Harper for Harper Lee, the lady who d written To Kill a Mockingbird, Jeanette s favorite book truth be told, the only book she d made it all the way through in high school. She might have named her Scout, after the little girl in the story, because she wanted her little girl to grow up like that, tough and funny and wise, in a way that she, Jeanette, had never managed to be. But Scout was a name for a boy, and she didn t want her daughter to have to go around her whole life explaining something like that.
Amy s father was a man who came in one day to the restaurant where Jeanette had waited tables since she turned sixteen, a diner everyone called the Box, because it looked like one: like a big chrome shoe box sitting off the county road, backed by fields of corn and beans, nothing else around for miles except a self-serve car wash, the kind where you had to put coins into the machine and do all the work yourself. The man, whose name was Bill Reynolds, sold combines and harvesters, big things like that, and he was a sweet talker who told Jeanette as she poured his coffee and then later, again and again, how pretty she was, how he liked her coal-black hair and hazel eyes and slender wrists, said it all in a way that sounded like he meant it, not the way boys in school had, as if the words were just something that needed to get said along the way to her letting them do as they liked. He had a big car, a new Pontiac, with a dashboard that glowed like a spaceship and leather seats creamy as butter. She could have loved that man,
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she thought, really and truly loved him. But he stayed in town only a few days, and then went on his way. When she told her father what had happened, he said he wanted to go looking for him, make him live up to his responsibilities. But what Jeanette knew and didn t say was that Bill Reynolds was married, a married man; he had a family in Lincoln, all the way clean over in Nebraska. He d even showed her the pictures in his wallet of his kids, two little boys in baseball uniforms, Bobby and Billy. So no matter how many times her father asked who the man was that had done this to her, she didn t say. She didn t even tell him the man s name.
And the truth was, she didn t mind any of it, not really: not the being pregnant, which was easy right until the end, nor the delivery itself, which was bad but fast, nor, especially, having a baby, her little Amy. To tell Jeanette he d decided to forgive her, her father had done up her brother s old bedroom as a nursery, carried down the old baby crib from the attic, the one Jeanette herself had slept in, years ago; he d gone with Jeanette, in the last months before Amy came, to the Walmart to pick out some things she d need, like pajamas and a little plastic tub and a wind-up mobile to hang over the crib. He d read a book that said that babies needed things like that, things to look at so their little brains would turn on and begin to work properly. From the start Jeanette always thought of the baby as her, because in her heart she wanted a girl, but she knew that wasn t the sort of thing you should say to anyone, not even to yourself. She d had a scan at the hospital over in Cedar Falls and asked the woman, a lady in a flowered smock who was running the little plastic paddle over Jeanette s stomach, if she could tell which it was; but the woman laughed, looking at the
And the truth was, she didn t mind any of it, not really: not the being pregnant, which was easy right until the end, nor the delivery itself, which was bad but fast, nor, especially, having a baby, her little Amy. To tell Jeanette he d decided to forgive her, her father had done up her brother s old bedroom as a nursery, carried down the old baby crib from the attic, the one Jeanette herself had slept in, years ago; he d gone with Jeanette, in the last months before Amy came, to the Walmart to pick out some things she d need, like pajamas and a little plastic tub and a wind-up mobile to hang over the crib. He d read a book that said that babies needed things like that, things to look at so their little brains would turn on and begin to work properly. From the start Jeanette always thought of the baby as her, because in her heart she wanted a girl, but she knew that wasn t the sort of thing you should say to anyone, not even to yourself. She d had a scan at the hospital over in Cedar Falls and asked the woman, a lady in a flowered smock who was running the little plastic paddle over Jeanette s stomach, if she could tell which it was; but the woman laughed, looking at the
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Autoren-Porträt von Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers’ Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Justin Cronin
- 2010, 784 Seiten, Maße: 16,7 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0345504968
- ISBN-13: 9780345504968
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.12.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
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[A] blockbuster. The New York Times Book ReviewMythic storytelling. San Francisco Chronicle
Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . The Passage can stand proudly next to Stephen King s apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy s The Road: a story about human beings trying to generate new hope in a world from which all hope has long since been burnt. Time
The type of big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night. The Dallas Morning News
Addictive. Men s Journal
Cronin s unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind. Parade
Cronin has given us what could be the best book of the summer. Don t wait to dive into The Passage. USA Today
Great storytelling . . . vital, tender, and compelling. O: The Oprah Magazine
Cronin gets it just right; the combination of attentive realism and doomsday stakes makes for a mesmerizing experience. Salon
Magnificently unnerving . . . A The Stand-meets-The Road journey. Entertainment Weekly
Imagine Michael Crichton crossbreeding Stephen King s The Stand and Salem s Lot in that lab on Jurassic Park, with rich infusions of Robert McCammon s Swan Song, Battlestar Galactica and even Cormac McCarthy s The Road. The Washington Post
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