Parasites Like Us

*The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013After 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.

Summary

*The debut novel by the author of THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON: winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2013After 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.

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Product details

• Authors: Adam Johnson
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9781784160081
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-008-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Black Swan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Anthropology