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Parasites like us

Parasites like us

by Adam Johnson

fictionanthropologistsplagueThought and thinkingCreative thinking
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Open Library
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Hoping to learn more about those he loves by studying the lost civilizations of human history, anthropologist Hank Hannah works at the site of a twelve-thousand-year-old grave and unearths a deadly legacy linked to the Ice Age.

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fictionanthropologistsplagueThought and thinkingCreative thinkingProblem solving

About the author

Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson

1967

ADAM JOHNSON is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son. He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, Granta, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium, a short-story collection, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco. --https://www.facebook.com/pg/adamjohnsonbooks/about/

Author

Adam Johnson

Pages

341

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Transworld Publishers Limited

ISBN

9781784160081

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