Blindness
San Diego, CA : Harcourt, Inc., 1999.
Format: Book
Edition: First Harvest edition.
Description: 326 pages ; 21 cm
"A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to a empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers--among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears--through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness is a powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses--and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit"--Page 4 of cover.
ISBN:
0156007754
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Saramago | Wheatley (Shandon) | Fiction | Out (Due: 5/1/2024) |
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"A Harvest book."
"First published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press [309 pages]"--Title page verso.
Accelerated Reader UG 8.1 21.
Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1998.
"First published in English in Great Britain in 1997 by The Harvill Press [309 pages]"--Title page verso.
Accelerated Reader UG 8.1 21.
Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1998.