Anthem (Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition)

by Noah Hawley

Overview

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This is a bold and exciting novel. It is the sound of America having a nervous breakdown. We found ourselves reading and re-reading passages because they were too good to only read once. 2022 Fiction starts off here on a great foot.

This Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition has been designed with special colored endpapers inside the front and back covers. Cerulean blue in the front and Cayenne in the back to match the colors of the front and back color.

The first big novel of 2022: an epic literary thriller set where America is right now, in which a band of unlikely heroes sets out on a quest to save one innocent life—and might end up saving us all.

Something is happening to teenagers across America, spreading through memes only they can parse.

At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister’s tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called The Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as The Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse. Their quest becomes a rescue mission when they join up with a man whose sister is being held captive by the Wizard, impregnated and imprisoned in a tower.

Noah Hawley’s new novel is an adventure that finds unquenchable lights in dark corners. Unforgettably vivid characters and a plot as fast and bright as pop cinema blend in a Vonnegutian story that is as timeless as a Grimm’s fairy tale. It is a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart, written with the bravado, literary power, and feverish foresight that have made Hawley one of our most essential writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538725559
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	01/04/2022
Edition description:	Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	20,813
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Award‑winning author Noah Hawley is one of the most accomplished auteurs and versatile storytellers working in television, film and literature. Over the course of his more than 20-year career, Hawley's work as a novelist, screenwriter, series creator, showrunner and director has garnered acclaim—winning an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and Peabody Award. As a bestselling author, Hawley has published six novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men, Other People’s Weddings, The Punch, The Good Father, Before the Fall and the upcoming Anthem.