Acceptance: Book 3 by Jeff VanderMeer (English) Paperback Book

Description: Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer Pure reading pleasure NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWGenuinely potent and dream-haunting writing GUARDIANPowerful and echoingNEW STATESMAN FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Pure reading pleasure NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWGenuinely potent and dream-haunting writing GUARDIANPowerful and echoing NEW STATESMAN A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith an introduction by Helen MacDonaldArea X has rebuffed expedition after expedition for decades, refusing to reveal its secrets. As it expands alarmingly, the Southern Reach agency tasked with its investigation has collapsed in confusion. Now, one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may yet hold vital answers. How was Area X created, and why? Can it be stopped?In this climactic volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, reality mutates and mysteries resolve, but now that so many questions have answers, the consequences are no less profound – or terrifying.Pure reading pleasure NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWArresting, unsettling, and unforgettable NEW YORKERContemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels GUARDIAN Notes All 3 titles in The Southern Reach trilogy, now in paperback. These books have launched VanderMeers creepy and haunting sci-fi visions into the mainstream. This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece... Guardian Author Biography Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of Americas American Fantastic Tales and in multiple years-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife. Review Praise for ACCEPTANCE and the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY:Im loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating Stephen KingHauntingly weird and brilliantly new … These are contemporary masterpieces and career-defining novels Adam Robert, Books of the Year, GuardianThis trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece … Remarkable … Tense, eerie and unsettling … VanderMeer writes much better prose than Poe ever did … This is genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived GuardianA teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike … "Annihilation" shows signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience Sunday TelegraphA lasting monument to the uncanny … You find yourself afraid to turn the page GuardianVanderMeers novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease Financial TimesAstonishing, frightening, spectacular … The imaginative daring and reach with which VanderMeer has invented and executed a concept such as Area X is breathtaking … Powerful and echoing New StatesmanImmersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel … A major work SFX MagazineA tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it Lauren BeukesOriginal and beautiful, maddening and magnificent Warren Ellis Promotional (10th Anniversary Edition): The bestselling third science fiction novel in the now-classic Southern Reach Series Long Description The third volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. Creepy and fascinating Stephen King. The Southern Reach trilogy draws to a close and it is winter in Area X. One last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers theyve been seeking. As they press deeper into the unknown, the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound - or terrifying. Review Quote Praise for the SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY: Im loving the Southern Reach Trilogy ... Creepy and fascinating Stephen King This trilogy is a modern mycological masterpiece ... Remarkable ... Tense, eerie and unsettling ... VanderMeer writes much better prose than Poe ever did ... This is genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing. VanderMeer has arrived. Guardian A teeming science fiction that draws on Conrad and Lovecraft alike ... The writing itself has a clarity that makes the abundancy of the setting more powerful. "Annihilation" shows signs of being the novel that will allow VanderMeer to break through to a new and larger audience Sunday Telegraph A lasting monument to the uncanny ... You find yourself afraid to turn the page Guardian VanderMeers novel is a psycho-geographical tour de force, channelling Ballard and Lovecraft to instil the reader with a deep, delicious unease Financial Times What a haunting book this is, lodging deep in the memory in similar fashion to otherworldly classics such as David Lindsays "A Voyage To Arcturus" ... "Annihilation" is so disquietingly strange as to defy summarisation. Read it Daily Mail Astonishing ... frightening .... spectacular ... The imaginative daring and reach with which VanderMeer has invented and executed a concept such as Area X is breathtaking ... Powerful and echoing ... I hope the trilogy will come to be seen not only as the instant sci-fi classic it is, but also as Literature. Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman Immersive, insightful and often deeply bloody creepy, this is a startlingly good novel ... The Southern Reach series will be a major work ***** SFX Magazine A tense and chilling psychological thriller about an unravelling expedition and the strangeness within us. A little Kubrick, a lot of Lovecraft, the novel builds with an unbearable tension and claustrophobic dread that lingers long afterwards. I loved it Lauren Beukes Original and beautiful, maddening and magnificent Warren Ellis Feature * The Southern Reach trilogy has already TCMed 20,500 copies TCM across HB, EB and audio in the UK alone. * Jeff VanderMeer is hugely well-known within the science fiction community but this trilogy has successfully launched him into the bookselling mainstream. * Library Journal, Kirkus and Amazon all included the Southern Reach Trilogy in their Books of the Year round ups. Annihilation was also a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Competition: The Passage; The Stars Are Legion; The Last Days Of New Paris. Jeff VanderMeer;Hugh Howey; Justin Cronin; Kameron Hurley; China Mi Description for Sales People The third volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. Creepy and fascinating Stephen King. The Southern Reach trilogy draws to a close and it is winter in Area X. One last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers theyve been seeking. As they press deeper into the unknown, the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound - or terrifying. Gold title * The Southern Reach trilogy has already TCMed 20,500 copies TCM across HB, EB and audio in the UK alone. * Jeff VanderMeer is hugely well-known within the science fiction community but this trilogy has successfully launched him into the bookselling mainstream. * Library Journal, Kirkus and Amazon all included the Southern Reach Trilogy in their Books of the Year round ups. Annihilation was also a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Details ISBN0008139121 Author Jeff VanderMeer Pages 352 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Series The Southern Reach Trilogy Year 2015 ISBN-10 0008139121 ISBN-13 9780008139124 Format Paperback Subtitle Book 3 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book DEWEY 813.6 Language English UK Release Date 2015-07-30 Publication Date 2015-07-30 Alternative 9780007553532 Series Number Book 3 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-07-19 NZ Release Date 2015-07-26 Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91167489;

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