Conscience Place - Softcover

Joyce Thompson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140073566 ISBN 13: 9780140073560

Publisher: Dell Publishing Co Inc, 1986

Synopsis

The Place, a colony of the deformed offspring of nuclear accident victims, flourishes peacefully--unknown to the outside world which is unknown to it--until the outside world threatens to invade this tranquility

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From the Back Cover

Batholomew, the limbless one, who records the life of his brethren...Lucas, the bodiless, who give his brethren names...Brother Alice, who delivers the words of the Fathers to the children of Conscience Place. To the outside world, they are monsters. To themselves, they are simply the People. America has cast them out of sight, out of mind. But you will never forget them.

Review

"Conscience Place describes the indescribable...moving, devastating and realized to its fullest powers--in this book Thompson has achieved a fictional feat."--Publishers Weekly

"A beautifully told story...a thought-provoking gem."--Library Journal

"Powerful...touching. The potent premise is rendered with restraint and imagination."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Leaves no doubt that the atomic age has bred a monster far more evil and lasting than than did Shelley's lonely Frankenstein."  --San Francisco Chronicle

"Thompson has handled the subject of nuclear devastation adroitly, and raised and answered some troublesome questions about war and other human shortcomings....Conscience Place will make you think." --Seattle Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Dell Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140073566
• ISBN 13: 9780140073560
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240