After me comes the flood : a novel / Sarah Perry.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Custom House, [2020]Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 229, [11] pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062666406
- 0062666401
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Main Library | Fiction | Perry, Sarah | Available | 33111009632908 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series
"A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one."--Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests
Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by Sarah Perry, the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth.
One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early, and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Entering the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents all of whom seem to know who he is, and also claim they have been awaiting his arrival. They seem to be waiting for something else, too--something final....
Written before Sarah Perry's ascension to an internationally bestselling author, After Me Comes the Flood is a spectacular novel of obsession, conviction, and providence.
"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Serpent's Tail, an imprint of Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.
"One hot summer day, John Cole decides to shut his bookshop early and possibly forever, and drives out of London to see his brother. When his car breaks down on an isolated road, he goes looking for help and finds a dilapidated house. As he approaches, a laughing woman he's never seen before walks out, addresses him by name and explains she's been waiting for him. Once he enters the home, John discovers an enigmatic clan of residents, all of whom seem to know who he is and claim they have been awaiting his arrival. The seem to be waiting for something else, too -- something final ...""-- Provided by publisher.