Census
Ball, Jesse
Sold by Queequeg's Bookshop, Friday Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since December 4, 2024
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - As new
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Add to basketSold by Queequeg's Bookshop, Friday Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since December 4, 2024
Condition: Used - As new
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSigned first edition, as new, in slipcase, dj in mint condition with first edition sticker. Includes Indiespensible booklet with author's interview.
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NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2018 BY
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A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns
When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely loves, a boy with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind, and with a desire to see the country on one last trip, the man signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son.
Traveling into the country, through towns named only by ascending letters of the alphabet, the man and his son encounter a wide range of human experience. While some townspeople welcome them into their homes, others who bear the physical brand of past censuses on their ribs are wary of their presence. When they press toward the edges of civilization, the landscape grows wilder, and the towns grow farther apart and more blighted by industrial decay. As they approach “Z,” the man must confront a series of questions: What is the purpose of the census? Is he complicit in its mission? And just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son?
Mysterious and evocative, Census is a novel about free will, grief, the power of memory, and the ferocity of parental love, from one of our most captivating young writers.
Jesse Ball is the author of fifteen books, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is on the faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the Gordon Burn Prize, and was long-listed for the National Book Award.
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