He has always exhibited an uncanny gift for tapping into the horrors that wake us, heart pounding, in the middle of the night. Franklin's and Margaret's journey, as brutal and hopeless as it often seems, transforms into a kind of allegory for the human capacity for loyalty, love, humour and imagination." -Toronto Star " takes us straight to the heart of what it means to be human. He is especially good at documenting the bodily toll that unrelenting life on the road exacts. He can't quite extinguish the joy that percolates through all his writing, andThe Pesthouseends up being a lovely literary cipher in the way that Crace's work always is." -Joan Thomas,The Globe and Mail "Crace brings his unsentimental but unflagging imagination to the ruined landscape and battered scavenger societies of this new America.
Crace's distinctive marked rhythms, just one draft away from blank verse, are at odds with satire. AGLOBE & MAILBEST BOOK OF 2007 "The Pesthouseexudes a kind of eerie charm." -Time Out "A book that I read hungrily for what it might have to say about the fix we are all in on this planet.
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