Parasites Like Us

by Adam Johnson

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Pub Date 19 Jun 2014 | Archive Date 12 Oct 2014

Random House UK, Transworld Publishers | Black Swan

General Fiction (Adult)

Description

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

After 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.

A Note From the Publisher

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Advance Praise

Brilliance to burn - New York Times Book Review

A fantastically twisted and terrifying first novel - Esquire

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Adam Johnson teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His second novel THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2013 and was a New York Times bestseller. His short story NIRVANA won the EFG/Sunday Times Best Short Story Award 2014. He lives in San Francisco with his family.