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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780802143334
ISBN: 0802143334
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 118218
Studio: Grove Press
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Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory . . . Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly,” The Children’s Hospital is the story of a hospital preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water, and a young medical student who finds herself gifted with strange powers and a frightening destiny. Jemma Claflin is a third-year medical student at the unnamed hospital that is the only thing to survive after an apocalyptic storm. Inside the hospital, beds are filled with children with the most rare and complicated childhood diseases—a sort of new-age Noah’s Ark, a hospital filled with two of each kind of sickness. As Jemma and her fellow doctors attempt to make sense of what has happened to the world, and try to find the meaning of their futures, Jemma becomes a Moses figure, empowered with the mysterious ability to heal the sick by way of a green fire that shoots from her belly. Simultaneously epic and intimate, wildly imaginative and unexpectedly relevant, The Children’s Hospital is a work of stunning scope, mesmerizing detail, and wrenching emotion.
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The premise of the book is certainly interesting, following the rapture story and the final existence of man. Unfortunately I found a lot of the imagery to be very disturbing and hard for me to want to read.
Many of the characters were memorable, and I do find myself thinking back to this book and times and considering the final state of humanity. Unfortunately that is often balanced with some horrible acts by the characters and many flashbacks to the main characters home life which ... Read More
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I really liked this book! It was so intreaging, and really captures big imaginations like mine. I had dreams that definately were rooted in me reading before bedtime. I am not religious, but found the religious themes interesting, especially with todays society leaning so much towards secular views. The end was sortof sad, but very appropriate. I couldnt imagine it ending any other way. (It was sortof trippy) You will need some time to reflect after reading it. I could see how some people might not ... Read More
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I'm finally getting around reading this book for the second time, after thinking about it for over a year (this book won't let you off the hook once it gets into your head).
This time around, I think I'll keep the book's title in mind. The frustration from the characters within the book as well as from readers of it seems to be related to us all thinking that the hospital is there for the medical staff rather than the patients. Once you can accept that is not the case, the book has an ... Read More
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First, let me say that I think Chris Adrian is a very good writer. Now he just needs to find a very good editor, because this behemoth of a book could easily have been cut by a third with no appreciable difference made to the story line. Lotta flab here. As I said, the writing itself was good, and I must say I agree with him completely about the devastating effect of talking babies in advertising and popular culture, by by God, I did not need over SIX HUNDRED pages of Jemma's fears and daydreams.
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Perserved in a hospital, 1130 people survive the apocalypse in this epic, ambitious, beautiful, and devestating novel. This is the kind of book you immerse yourself into, pulling you down through all seven miles of water, stranding you alone in one huge building. At times it can be suffocating, at other exhilerating. There are some scenes that literally took my breath away (a massive healing through the hospital). At other times, the pages can't fly about fast enough (a boy's diary; an exploration off ... Read More
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