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Acceptance: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
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Acceptance: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
$16.49
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Mind-bending, Melancholy, Atmospheric
- Kind of story
- Weird fiction, Literary science fiction
- About
- Nature, Identity, Isolation, Grief
- Pace
- Slow burn
- How dark
- 3 of 5. Dark, with real menace
- Romance
- None to speak of
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Complete the set: The Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer
Read in this order. Absolution came out ten years later and is best read last.
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The conclusion of the Southern Reach trilogy, and the closest thing to answers Area X will give.
Shelf note: If Authority lost you, this is where the trilogy pays off. The last hundred pages are unforgettable.
The border is advancing. The Southern Reach has collapsed. What's left of the agency goes back across in a final expedition, and this time the novel refuses to stay in one place. It moves between the lighthouse keeper decades before the Event, the vanished director's childhood on that coast, the biologist's long solitude, and Control and Ghost Bird stumbling through a landscape that has stopped pretending to be ordinary.
VanderMeer doesn't resolve Area X so much as show you enough of its shape to understand why resolution was never available. The book's real subject turns out to be grief: for a coastline, for a marriage, for a world that was already being lost before anything arrived to take it.
People who bounced off Authority often find this one recovers everything. The final hundred pages are among the strangest and most beautiful in contemporary science fiction. Special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Helen Macdonald.
Details
- Author: Jeff VanderMeer
- Introduction: Helen Macdonald
- Series: The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 3
- Format: Paperback, 10th Anniversary Edition
- ISBN: 9781250824066
Praise
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A satisfying conclusion to this captivating trilogy.
Booklist
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This trilogy is that rare thing, a set in which the whole is as great as the parts.
Publishers Weekly
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I'm loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.
Stephen King on The Southern Reach Trilogy
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VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension... Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn.
Laura Miller, Salon on The Southern Reach Trilogy
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