Cold People

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Product Details
Price
$28.99  $26.96
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Publish Date
Pages
368
Dimensions
6.37 X 9.23 X 1.25 inches | 1.16 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781982198404

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About the Author
Tom Rob Smith is the author of the acclaimed Child 44 trilogy. Child 44 itself was a global publishing sensation, selling over two million copies. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Prize and won the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His most recent novel, The Farm, was a #1 international bestseller. Tom also writes for television and won a Writer's Guild Award for best adapted series and an Emmy and Golden Globe for best limited series with American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. He is also the creator and executive producer of FX's suspense thriller series Class of '09.
Reviews
"Chilling in so many ways." --LA Times

"Cinematic . . . Natural selection is magnificent in the abstract, when it works over millennia, but seeing it sped up to take place in a single lifetime, as Smith vividly imagines, exposes its brutality." --Washington Post

"Fascinating . . . a propulsive ride [that] unfolds at a galloping pace through a well-built world." --Christian Science Monitor

"A vastly ambitious novel, tackling the weightiest questions of our time in a form that rarely loses the tension of a thriller, despite the complexity of its subject matter." --The Observer (UK)

"Cold People is a zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy that achieves escapist lift-off [and] recalls H.P. Lovecraft and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. . . .Wild, imaginative, [and] fast moving." --Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of 2023

"Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a masterful and unforgettable epic." --Bookreporter.com

"A brilliantly conceived postapocalyptic story . . . absolutely captivating . . . Smith's near-future world is wonderfully imaginative and rigorously detailed, the kind of made-up place that feels viscerally real. A real treat." --Booklist (starred review)

"Spellbinding . . . suspenseful . . . electrifying . . . A speculative masterpiece that will resonate with fans of Emily St. John Mandel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Jeff VanderMeer." --Library Journal (starred review)

"What lines, if any, shouldn't be crossed to save humanity from extinction? That question is at the heart of this stunning postapocalyptic thriller. . . . [a] triumph of imagination and empathy." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)