Jim Crace: "The Pesthouse" (Doubleday)

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Jim Crace: "The Pesthouse" (Doubleday)

A British novelist set out to challenge the American Dream by imagining the United States of the future with no literacy or technology. He explains how a novel intended as a blow to America became a love story instead.

A British novelist set out to challenge the American Dream by imagining the United States of the future with no literacy or technology. He explains how a novel intended as a blow to America became a love story instead.

Guests

Jim Crace

author of eight previous novels, including "Being Dead," the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2000, and "Quarantine," the Whitbread Novel of the year in 1997.

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