Hunger: A Novel - Softcover

Blackwell, Elise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316907197 ISBN 13: 9780316907194

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2004

Synopsis

In the wake of the Siege of Leningrad in 1941, during which hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, a scientist at the Institute of Plant Industry, charged with protecting a collection of rare seeds that could provide food, is forced to make a terrible choice. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"An exquisite little book . . . Blackwell craftily weaves history and botany through this utterly devourable narrative . . . A multicolored treat." (-Los Angeles Times, 5/4/03). "[A] spare, searing first novel . . . a finely angled vision...a spare portrait of the banality of survival."( -Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/13/03). "...a lucid, serene style, which contrasts with her grim subject matter and increases its nightmarish quality....suggests a profoundly disturbing reality" (-Wall Street Journal, (7/25/03)

About the Author:

ELISE BLACKWELL, author of HUNGER, has worked as a journalist, instructor, freelance writer, and translator. Originally from southern Louisiana, she lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and daughter. In the fall (2003), she will join the creative writing faculty of Boise State University. Some of her current favorite books are Albert Camus's THE PLAGUE, Ralph Ellison's THE INVISIBLE MAN, Cormac McCarthy's BLOOD MERIDIAN, Michael Ondaatje's COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER, Howard Norman's THE BIRD ARTIST, and John Edgar Wideman's THE CATTLE KILLING. She also reads a lot of twentieth-century poetry as well as short stories by southern writers. Her other interests include travel and music.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0316907197
• ISBN 13: 9780316907194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160