Due Preparations for Plague PA

by Hospital,Janette Turner

• ISBN13: 9780393325737
• ISBN10: 0393325733
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying novel chronicles the lives of two strangers connected by the tragic loss of parents in a hijacked Paris-New York flight. As an adult, Samantha, one of the children set free by the terrorists, has become obsessed with the hijacking. Under the guise of her senior thesis, she pulls Lowell, the son of a victim, into a web of terror, death, and betrayal that he has spent his adult life trying to forget. Hospital's electrifying novel is a tightly woven web of familial and national histories, of sexual and political passions, and of individual and national complicities in the age of terrorism. She probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, and the painful meaning of survival.

Author Biography

Janette Turner Hospital is the author of six previous novels, including Oyster and The Last Magician, both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her story collections are Isobars and Dislocations, which won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Fiction Award. A two-time finalist for the Australian National Book Award, Hospital is the recipient of numerous other honors and has been published in twelve languages. Originally from Australia, she has lived in Canada, the U.K., France, and India, but now holds a permanent position at the University of South Carolina, where she is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence

Table of Contents

BOOK I OLD MOLE	3	(44)
BOOK II FOG	47	(54)
BOOK III CODE NAME: BLACK DEATH	101	(68)
BOOK IV ANISHING POINTS	169	(52)
BOOK V JOURNAL OF S: ENCRYPTED	221	(54)
BOOK VI IN THE MARSH	275	(28)
BOOK VII THE DECAMERON TAPE	303	(62)
BOOK VIII AFTERMATH	365