Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel

VanderMeer, Jeff

ISBN 10: 0374616590 / ISBN 13: 9780374616595

Published by MCD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), New York, 2024

About this Item

New York: MCD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux):, 2024. Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 441 pp. Cover artwork by: Pablo Delcan "A continued exploration of the mysterious Area X by the scientists and voyagers that VanderMeer introduced ten years ago in the original volumes.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel
• Publisher: MCD (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), New York
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374616590
• ISBN 13: 9780374616595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pablo Delcan
• Condition: Hardcover, New in dust jacket,
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Locus Awards Finalist

ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024:
The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York magazine, Time, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Goodreads

The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestseller list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.

And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast―before Area X was called Area X―had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?

Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. There are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.

About the Author

Jeff VanderMeer is the New York Times bestselling author of Hummingbird Salamander, the Borne novels, the Southern Reach series, the Ambergris trilogy, and Veniss Underground. He writes widely about issues relating to climate change and the environment.