The end of October : a novel /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: 380 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525658658
- 0525658653
- 813/.54 23
- PS3573.R53685 E53 2020
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Fiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | WRIGHT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022358092 | |||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Fiction | Hayden Library | Book | WRIGHT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022319805 | |||
Standard Loan | Kellogg Library Adult Fiction | Kellogg Library | Book | WRIGHT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022112325 | |||
Standard Loan | Priest River Library Adult Fiction | Priest River Library | Book | F WRIGHT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610021858308 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller." -- New York Post
"Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders . . . A disturbing, eerily timed novel." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A compelling read up to the last sentence. Wright has come up with a story worthy of Michael Crichton. In an eerily calm, matter-of-fact way, and backed by meticulous research, he imagines what the world would actually be like in the grip of a devastating new virus." --Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone
"This timely literary page-turner shows Wright is on a par with the best writers in the genre." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.
At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons--microbiologist, epidemiologist--travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi prince and doctor in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city . . . A Russian émigré, a woman who has risen to deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security, scrambles to mount a response to what may be an act of biowarfare . . . Already-fraying global relations begin to snap, one by one, in the face of a pandemic . . . Henry's wife, Jill, and their children face diminishing odds of survival in Atlanta . . . And the disease slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions--scientific, religious, governmental--and decimating the population. As packed with suspense as it is with the fascinating history of viral diseases, Lawrence Wright has given us a full-tilt, electrifying, one-of-a-kind thriller.
This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf.
At an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe: an infected man is on his way to join the millions of worshippers in the annual Hajj to Mecca. Now, Henry joins forces with a Saudi doctor and prince in an attempt to quarantine the entire host of pilgrims in the holy city. Matilda Nachinsky, deputy director of U. S. Homeland Security, scrambles to mount a response to what may be an act of biowarfare already-fraying global relations begin to snap, one by one, in the face of a pandemic. Henry's wife Jill and their children face diminishing odds of survival in Atlanta as the disease slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions--scientific, religious, governmental--and decimating the population.
Patron comment on 01/09/2024
"The End of October" is an uncanny reflection of what happened with our Pandemic COVID-19. Uncanny. Lawrence Wright wrote this in 2019 and Knopf published it in 2020, the year the pandemic began. His medical fiction mirrors what happened in America and the world. I found the first two sections a 5-star read. In Wright's "In the Deep" section III, Wright loses focus, and his writing is soon filled with sentimental family issues. This section was not as engaging.