Book Discussion Group in Redondo Beach

05/19/2012 12:00 pm
05/19/2012 1:00 pm

Our book club is hosted by a different bookseller each month, and each book selection will focus on a different genre. The book club is open to everyone and it’s the perfect opportunity for readers to branch out and find new favorites while getting to know your booksellers! Come in and grab your copy of this month’s selection (Emilio’s pick), The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus. The next selection will be announced at the meeting. Book club members receive 20% off of the current book club selection! 

Reading The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus.

The Flame Alphabet (Hardcover)

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780307379375
Availability: Not in stock, but can usually be shipped within the week.
Published: Knopf, 1/2012
In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck the country and the sound of children’s speech has become lethal. Radio transmissions from strange sources indicate that people are going into hiding. All Sam and Claire need to do is look around the neighborhood: In the park, parents wither beneath the powerful screams of their children. At night, suburban side streets become routes of shameful escape for fathers trying to get outside the radius of affliction. With Claire nearing collapse, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther, who laughs at her parents’ sickness, unaware that in just a few years she, too, will be susceptible to the language toxicity. But Sam and Claire find it isn’t so easy to leave the daughter they still love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a world beyond recognition. The Flame Alphabet invites the question: What is left of civilization when we lose the ability to communicate with those we love? Both morally engaged and wickedly entertaining, a gripping page-turner as strange as it is moving, this intellectual horror story ensures Ben Marcus’s position in the first rank of American novelists.

Location: 
Street:
2810 Artesia Blvd.
City:
Redondo Beach
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Province:
California
Postal Code:
90278
Country:
United States