Produktbeschreibung
Five miles long, two miles wide and one mile high, she was meant to be the ultimate ocean liner, the crowning achievement of the industrial era; she is the Hope. But after more than thirty years at sea with no landfall in sight, she has become a rust-caked, smoke-belching mockery of her former glory, host to a cargo of loners and losers, murderers and misfits, drudges and deviants.
Combining elements of horror and fantasy, Hames Lovegrove's first novel is an oceangoing fever-dream that blends allegory and satire to nightmarish effect and places the reader aboard a latterday Hobbes's Leviathan that seethes with memorable examples of humankind at its very best - and its very worst.
"...this clever, original, graphically brilliant, terrifyingly violent... book will water the dead flowers of your pessimism and put you off your food." - Eastern Daily Press
"Very gutsy first work with tremendous spark and imagination." - Michael Perry, The Daily Telegraph
"It is a gruesome, Gothic masterpiece." - Telegraph and Argus |
