- Social life and customs, Fiction, United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Fiction, general
After the world has been virtually destroyed and the United States consists of only its southernmost reaches, it is the period of the Quarantine, the beginning of a new era for the youth Fiskadoro, Anthony Cheung, and Cheung's one-hundred-year-old grandmother.
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Contemporary, grave, prestige and contemplative.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 228
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Chatto & Windus, Editions 10/18
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- French, English, und, German
- ISBN
- 9783499233869
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