Absolution
A Southern Reach Novel
by Jeff VanderMeer
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Pub Date Oct 22 2024 | Archive Date Nov 22 2024
Description
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024:
The New York Times, Washington Post, New York Magazine, TIME, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Goodreads
The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series—and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times story before publication, hailed by Stephen King and many others. Each volume climbed the bestseller list; awards were won; the books made the rare transition from paperback original to hardcover; the movie adaptation became a cult classic. All told, the trilogy has sold more than a million copies and has secured its place in the pantheon of twenty-first-century literature.
And yet for all this, for Jeff VanderMeer there was never full closure to the story of Area X. There were a few mysteries that had gone unsolved, some key points of view never aired. There were stories left to tell. There remained questions about who had been complicit in creating the conditions for Area X to take hold; the story of the first mission into the Forgotten Coast—before Area X was called Area X—had never been fully told; and what if someone had foreseen the world after Acceptance? How crazy would they seem?
Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. There are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and profound new surprises. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
A Note From the Publisher
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780374616595 |
PRICE | $30.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 464 |
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Featured Reviews
An investigator haunted by a lifetime of work and the loss of his daughter seeks answers about the bizarre and baffling destruction of a team of biologists in Area X. This book takes place before the previous books in the Southern Reach trilogy.
This book was great: deeply weird, and as engrossing as it is unsettling. The story is complex, with lots of narrative threads. It’s a story of a man, Old Jim, who works for (and is perhaps controlled by) the shadowy government entity, “Central” as well as an origin story about Area X.
I have read Annihilation, but have not read Authority or Acceptance. I did not feel that I needed to have read these books to understand and appreciate Absolution. There is a lot of unreliable narrator/unreliable world/don’t-believe-everything-you-hear in this book, and it required close reading to follow at times.
It’s an absolute journey from a weird lit master. I will certainly be recommending it!
Everything I wanted it to be and more. Haunting and melodic, this book lulls you into a bizarre nightmare that answers questions you were never brave enough to voice. Reading this book- after ten years of believing that the Southern Reach series was a trilogy- is like getting a free dessert after you've indulged to uncomfortable fullness at a Michelin star restaurant. I was constantly uncomfortable but I savored every minute of it.