The Children's Hospital
Published on 7. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-1-84708-579-5 (ISBN)
Description
A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the centre, a young medical student finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children's Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.
Reviews / Votes
Astoundingly good, a raggedly ambitious book, and proof that Adrian is equal to his ambition... profoundly disturbing, suffused with weird and unsettling poetry... The best and the weakest of humanity, the most-feared and most-hoped for things, can all be found within these pages -- Stuart Kelly * Guardian * Quirky, flippant and clever -- Theresa Munoz * Sunday Herald * Uplifting * Daily Telegraph * To read Adrian is to take part in the exciting process of watching a talented and original writer gain mastery of his powerful gifts * New York Times Book Review * Adrian is a writer of prodigious talent who holds your heart in your hands... we will be lucky as long as he continues to write * Boston Globe * One of the most revelatory novels in recent memory... Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly * San Francisco Chronicle * Adrian's life is a dedicated exploration of the things that matter most, and his writing is his companion and interlocutor, his guide and interpreter, as he travels a landscape not before seen by other eyes. And every report he makes of that world enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew -- Marilynne Robinson Adrian is a truly brilliant person with a unique way of processing the world around him, and the ability to communicate that vision back to us in what is often a startlingly beautiful manner -- Nathan Englander A powerful, thought-provoking story * Emerald Street *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84708-579-5 (9781847085795)
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Previous edition
Chris Adrian
The Children's Hospital
Book
08/2012
Granta Books
€41.07
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Person
Selected by the New Yorker as one of the '20 Under 40', CHRIS ADRIAN is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel and The Great Night. He is a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist at Columbia University. Adrian has a commissioned piece in Granta 120 Medicine, published August 2012.