- Science fiction, Hospitals, Medical students, Hospital ships
Opens with the world ending under seven sudden miles of water. The survivors are those caught on a random night in a very unusual children's hospital. Part tales of and by an unlikely hero of a medical student, part mythic narrative as thought by the recording angel responsible for watching and crhonicling events that represent a third covenant of God with the world.
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Contemporary, grave, epic and open-ended.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Chris Adrian
- First published
- August 22, 2006
- Pages
- 615
- Publisher
- Granta, McSweeney's, McSweeney's Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781932416602
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