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Annihilation: 1 Southern Reach

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Annihilation: 1 Southern Reach

SKU: 9780008139100 Category: Product ID: 24038

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Title: Annihilation: 1 Southern Reach
Author: VANDERMEER JEFF
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2015
Imprint: FOURTH ESTATE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

If J.J. Abrams and Margaret Atwood collaborated on a novel, it might look something like ‘Annihilation’, the first in an extraordinary trilogy. For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border- an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; even for those that have made it out alive, there have been terrible consequences. ‘Annihilation’ is the story of the twelfth expedition and is told by its nameless biologist. Introverted but highly intelligent, the biologist brings her own secrets with her. She is accompanied by a psychologist, an anthropologist and a surveyor, their stated mission: to chart the land, take samples and expand the Southern Reach’s understanding of Area X. But they soon find out that they are being manipulated by forces both strange and all too familiar. An unmapped tunnel is not as it first appears. An inexplicable moaning calls in the distance at dusk.
And while each member of the expedition has surrendered to the authority of the Southern Reach, the power of Area X is far more difficult to resist. ‘Annihilation’ is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, which will be published throughout 2014: volume two (‘Authority’) in May, and volume three (‘Acceptance’) in September 2014.

Series: The Southern Reach Trilogy
ISBN: 9780008139100
Weight: 270g
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 208

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Weight 270 g
Dimensions 197 × 130 mm