The Flame Alphabet
Author(s): Ben Marcus (Columbia University)
In "The Flame Alphabet," the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a novel about how far we will go in order to protect our loved ones. The sound of children's speech has become lethal. In the park, adults wither beneath the powerful screams of their offspring. For young parents Sam and Claire, it seems their only means of survival is to flee from their daughter, Esther. But they find it isn't so easy to leave someone you love, even as they waste away from her malevolent speech. On the eve of their departure, Claire mysteriously disappears, and Sam, determined to find a cure for this new toxic language, presses on alone into a foreign world to try to save his family.
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BEN MARCUS is the author of three books of fiction: "Notable American Women," "The Father Costume," and "The Age of Wire and String, " and he is the editor of "The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories." His stories have appeared in "Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, ""The Paris Review, ""McSweeney's, ""Tin House, "and "Conjunctions. "He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and awards from the Creative Capital Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City and Maine. www.benmarcus.com
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