On Sale Now: The Passage by Justin Cronin
The most anticipated and talked-about book of the summer is now on sale. With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction. Don’t believe us? Here is what the critics have to say about The Passage:
“Magnificently unnerving…A The Stand-meets-The Road journey.”—Entertainment Weekly, A-
“Cronin just gets it right; the combination of attentive realism and doomsday stakes makes for a mesmerizing experience.”—Salon
“A literary richness that rivals Stephen King’s The Stand.”—Time
“A postapocalyptic vampire trilogy, which Stephen King has hailed as a captivating epic…a potential commercial blockbuster by an award-winning literary novelist.”—Wall Street Journal
“Addictive, terrifying, and deeply satisfying. Not only is this one of the year’s best thrillers; it’s one of the best of the past decade – maybe one of the best ever.”—Men’s Journal
“This summer’s new ‘it’ book…a postapocalyptic epic…We’ve just found our summer escape!”—Elle, “Top 10 Summer Books for 2010”
“Every so often a novel-reader’s novel comes along: an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Summer is the perfect time for such books, and this year readers can enjoy the gift of Justin Cronin’s The Passage. Read fifteen pages and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears.”—Stephen King
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