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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Williams, Joy, 1944-     Subjects     Boarding schools -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Resorts -- Fiction.     Teenagers -- Fiction.     Older people -- Fiction.     Environmental disasters -- Fiction.     Environmental justice -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Williams, Joy, 1944-       by title:      Harrow : a novel / J...       by call number:      FICTION WIL     Search the Web     Williams, Joy, 1944-     Boarding schools -- Fiction.     Missing persons -- Fiction.     Resorts -- Fiction.     Teenagers -- Fiction.     Older people -- Fiction.     Environmental disasters -- Fiction.     Environmental justice -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Harrow : a novel / Joy Williams. by Williams, Joy, 1944- Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Call #: FICTION WIL Subjects Boarding schools -- Fiction.   Missing persons -- Fiction.   Resorts -- Fiction.   Teenagers -- Fiction.   Older people -- Fiction.   Environmental disasters -- Fiction.   Environmental justice -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780525657569 (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  ix, 203 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as we know it is dead, the pursuit of happiness fades into insignificance, food is scarce, and even time doesn't progress in an organized fashion. Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen -- a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she washes up at a 'resort' on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call 'Big Girl.' In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature's beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this 'baggy seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth'? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, delivered with Williams's searing, deadpan wit, their intertwined tale of paradise lost serves to commit us anew to that paradise, and to their reasons -- against all reasonableness -- to try and recover something of it"--Publisher. Awards:  Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, 2021. Genre:  Dystopian fiction. Apocalyptic fiction. Literary fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION WIL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION WIL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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