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Parasites Like Us

A Novel

A Novel

By Adam Johnson

By Adam Johnson

By Adam Johnson

By Adam Johnson

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Oct 26, 2004 | ISBN 9780142004777

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Oct 26, 2004 | ISBN 9781101665879

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    About Parasites Like Us

    The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Master’s Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award)

    Hailed as “remarkable” by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind’s quest for its own past.

    Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson’s distinctive dark humor, Parasites Like Us is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.

    About Parasites Like Us

    The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Master’s Son (winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award)

    Hailed as “remarkable” by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind’s quest for its own past.

    Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson’s distinctive dark humor, Parasites Like Us is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.

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    Also by Adam Johnson

    Fortune Smiles
    The Orphan Master's Son
    Emporium
    See all books by Adam Johnson

    Also by Adam Johnson

    Fortune Smiles
    The Orphan Master's Son
    Emporium
    See all books by Adam Johnson

    About Adam Johnson

    Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton… More about Adam Johnson

    About Adam Johnson

    Adam Johnson is the author of Fortune Smiles, winner of the National Book Award and the Story Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Orphan Master’s Son, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Dayton… More about Adam Johnson

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 26, 2004 | 352 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780142004777

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 26, 2004 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781101665879

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    A fantastically twisted and terrifying first novel. (Esquire)

    A grim romp of a first novel… great ingenuity and bravado . . . an artifact of real ambition and originality. (The New York Times Book Review)

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