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The flame alphabet, Ben Marcus

Label
The flame alphabet, Ben Marcus
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
The flame alphabet
Responsibility statement
Ben Marcus
Summary
Ben Marcus has received numerous awards for his groundbreaking fiction, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. In The Flame Alphabet, Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech. But when Sam discovers the truth about what's going on there, he realizes reuniting with his daughter is the only way to keep his sanity
Target audience
adult
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Contributor
Narrator

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