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The Emergency

By George Packer

The Emergency

By George Packer

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George Packer's gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he turns to fiction, bringing us a visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval. An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency that follows, youth rebellions of urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity. Doctor Hugo Rustin, chief surgeon at the Imperial College Hospital, is increasingly estranged from his city and his family-from his wife, Annabelle, who finds fulfillment in their changed community; and especially from his teenage daughter, Selva, who has turned against her father's values. When an incident at the hospital leads to Rustin's disgrace, he seeks redemption in a quixotic and dangerous journey into the countryside, with Selva as his companion, just as the conflict between Burghers and Yeomen is reaching a crisis. The Emergency is a novel of ideas and a taut page-turner. It asks what we owe each other across divided generations and classes-what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart. In creating a vividly imagined world, Packer takes us deep into the heart of our troubled moment.
Product details
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2025-11-11
Publication Date:
2025-11-11
Publisher:
Macmillan USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0374614725
ISBN13:
9780374614720
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
522 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
212 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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