The Passage - Brossura

"Every so often a novel-reader's novel comes along: an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Summer is the perfect time for such books, and this year readers can enjoy the gift of Justin Cronin's The Passage. Read fifteen pages and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears."
—Stephen King

"[A] genuinely jolting horror story. . . . Even scarier than intended."
--The New York Times

"[Cronin] has delivered the promised blockbuster. . . . The Passage is astutely plotted and imaginative enough to satisfy the most bloodthirsty reader. . . . [Cronin] artfully unspools his plot's complexities, and seemingly superfluous details come to connect in remarkable ways."
--The New York Times Book Review

"You've heard this sort of page-turner, un-put-downable stuff a few times before. But I'm here to tell you: This time, they're right."
--Ottawa Citizen

Born and raised in New England, JUSTIN CRONIN is the author of The Summer Guest — a Booksense national bestseller — and Mary and O'Neil, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize, both for best debut fiction of the year. Other honours for his writing include a Whiting Writer's Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Foundation, the National Novella Award, and an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His short fiction, book reviews and essays have appeared in the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. He is a Professor of English at Rice University and lives with his family in Houston, Texas.
From the Hardcover edition.