The Flame Alphabet. by Ben Marcus. The Flame Alphabet was published by Knopf in January Some reviews: “Marcus is a writer of prodigious talent Formally inventive, dark and dryly comic [ The Flame Alphabet] reads like a dream.”. —J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book Review. Amazon Best Books of the Month, January From the dark, curious imagination of Ben Marcus comes another brain melter of a novel. The Flame Alphabet has a pandemic premise--children are slowly killing their parents by speaking--and only gets stranger and smarter from there. When Sam leaves his decaying family behind to seek a cure for his daughter’s lethal condition, he winds up in a government /5(80). · 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, bltadwin.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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