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Jim Crace is known for fiction that probes the social and political nature of human beings. The author of eight previous novels, including Being Dead, Quarantine,Continent and Gift of Stone,, Crace’s work has won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the E. M. Forster Award, among others. Pesthouse follows a man and woman as they trek across a post-apocalyptic American landscape toward their last hope: passage on a ship to Europe. Robert Huber is the Features Editor of Philadelphia Magazine.