Goodhouse Synopsis
What would happen if you could see clearly into the genetic make-up of your friends and family? America at the end of the 21st century: 17-year-old James doesn't even know what his real name is, though he feels if someone uses it one day, he'll know it's his. Kindness to others is not an option at Goodhouse, a brutally run corrective school for boys with criminal genes. Awaiting him over the barbed wires of the school are the Zeros, a religious group who aim to rid the planet of impure boys like those at Goodhouse. But for James, his greatest threat is not the fundamentalists outside. His dream of walking through the gates as a civilian may yet be destroyed by the much deadlier threat from within...A bold, visionary tale of a forseeable future where genetic profiling is meant to prevent crime, but instead becomes a tool for oppression, Goodhouse poses urgent questions about freedom and slavery and what it means to be alive.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780857521903 |
| Publication date: |
1st January 2015 |
| Author: |
Peyton Marshall |
| Publisher: |
Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Primary Genre |
Fiction
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Peyton Marshall Press Reviews
'A marvel - a glorious combination of page-turning literary thriller and challenging examination of freedom, destiny, and the thorny ideals of faith and science' Eleanor Brown, NYT-bestselling author of THE WEIRD SISTERS
'GOODHOUSE is thrilling and wonderful and dark' Mark Childress, author of CRAZY IN ALABAMA
'A page-turning account of one boy's journey through a vivid and dangerous world.' Karen Jay Fowler, author of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES
'Peyton Marshall's debut is a page-turner of the highest order, the kind of book you don't want to finish but cannot stop reading.' James Scott, author of The Kept
'This is one of the most intellectually thrilling and beautifully unsettling novels I've read in years.' Bret Anthony Johnston, author of Remember Me Like This and Corpus Christi
About Peyton Marshall
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she received both a Maytag Fellowship and the Richard Yates Short Fiction Award. She is a multiple-time Pushcart nominee, and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, the novelist Pauls Toutonghi. Goodhouse is her first novel.
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