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The New World

Chris Adrian

The New World presents an innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds.

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite--rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice.

In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. Conceived in collaboration with Atavist Books, The New World investigates the meaning of love and loss in the digital era.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fsg Originals
  • Publish Date: May 3rd, 2016
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.30in - 4.70in - 0.60in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9780374536299
  • Categories: LiteraryThrillers - TechnologicalScience Fiction - General

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About the Author

Adrian, Chris: - Chris Adrian is the author of Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, A Better Angel, and The Great Night. Selected by The New Yorker as one of their "20 Under 40," he lives in San Francisco, where he is a fellow in pediatric hematology-oncology.
Horowitz, Eli: - Eli Horowitz was the managing editor and then publisher of McSweeney's. He is the co-author of The Clock Without a Face, a treasure-hunt mystery; Everything You Know Is Pong, an illustrated cultural history of Ping-Pong; and The New World, a collaboration with Chris Adrian, from FSG.

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