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Goodhouse
by Peyton Marshall
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Pub Date
1 Jan 2015
| Archive Date
23 Mar 2015
Description
What would happen if you could see clearly into the genetic make-up of your friends and family?
America
at the end of the 21st century: 17-year-old James doesn’t even know
what his real name is, though he feels if someone uses it one day, he’ll
know it’s his. Kindness to others is not an option at Goodhouse, a
brutally run corrective school for boys with criminal genes.
Awaiting
him over the barbed wires of the school are the Zeros, a religious
group who aim to rid the planet of impure boys like those at Goodhouse.
But for James, his greatest threat is not the fundamentalists outside.
His dream of walking through the gates as a civilian may yet be
destroyed by the much deadlier threat from within …
A bold,
visionary tale of a forseeable future where genetic profiling is meant
to prevent crime, but instead becomes a tool for oppression, GOODHOUSE
poses urgent questions about freedom and slavery and what it means to be
alive.
What would happen if you could see clearly into the genetic make-up of your friends and family? America at the end of the 21st century: 17-year-old James doesn’t even know what his real name is...
Description
What would happen if you could see clearly into the genetic make-up of your friends and family?
America
at the end of the 21st century: 17-year-old James doesn’t even know
what his real name is, though he feels if someone uses it one day, he’ll
know it’s his. Kindness to others is not an option at Goodhouse, a
brutally run corrective school for boys with criminal genes.
Awaiting
him over the barbed wires of the school are the Zeros, a religious
group who aim to rid the planet of impure boys like those at Goodhouse.
But for James, his greatest threat is not the fundamentalists outside.
His dream of walking through the gates as a civilian may yet be
destroyed by the much deadlier threat from within …
A bold,
visionary tale of a forseeable future where genetic profiling is meant
to prevent crime, but instead becomes a tool for oppression, GOODHOUSE
poses urgent questions about freedom and slavery and what it means to be
alive.
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Advance Praise
A
page-turning account of one boy's journey through a vivid and dangerous
world - Karen Jay Fowler, author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE
OURSELVES
A marvel - a glorious
combination of page-turning literary thriller and challenging
examination of freedom, destiny, and the thorny ideals of faith and
science - Eleanor Brown, NYT-bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS
GOODHOUSE is thrilling and wonderful and dark - Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA
Goodhouse is a debut of extraordinary power and vision, and Peyton Marshall is a new voice for the ages. - Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth
A
page-turning account of one boy's journey through a vivid and dangerous
world - Karen Jay Fowler, author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE
OURSELVES
A marvel - a glorious combination of...
Advance Praise
A
page-turning account of one boy's journey through a vivid and dangerous
world - Karen Jay Fowler, author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE
OURSELVES
A marvel - a glorious
combination of page-turning literary thriller and challenging
examination of freedom, destiny, and the thorny ideals of faith and
science - Eleanor Brown, NYT-bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS
GOODHOUSE is thrilling and wonderful and dark - Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA
Goodhouse is a debut of extraordinary power and vision, and Peyton Marshall is a new voice for the ages. - Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth
Marketing Plan
Like
NEVER LET ME GO and THE ROAD, a gripping, highly original, dramatic,
frighteningly vivid vision of our future.
*
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers
Workshop, where she received both a Maytag Fellowship and the Richard
Yates Short Fiction Award. She is a multiple-time Pushcart nominee, and
lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, the novelist Pauls
Toutonghi. Goodhouse is her first novel.
Like
NEVER LET ME GO and THE ROAD, a gripping, highly original, dramatic,
frighteningly vivid vision of our future.
*
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she received...
Marketing Plan
Like
NEVER LET ME GO and THE ROAD, a gripping, highly original, dramatic,
frighteningly vivid vision of our future.
*
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers
Workshop, where she received both a Maytag Fellowship and the Richard
Yates Short Fiction Award. She is a multiple-time Pushcart nominee, and
lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, the novelist Pauls
Toutonghi. Goodhouse is her first novel.
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Hardcover |
| ISBN |
9780857521903 |
| PRICE |
£12.99 (GBP)
|
Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Hardcover |
| ISBN |
9780857521903 |
| PRICE |
£12.99 (GBP)
|
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