Pure
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Depuis que les Détonations ont ravagé le monde, Pressia vit avec son grand-père dans les décombres, la cendre et le danger. Demain, elle aura 16 ans, âge où la milice vous enlève pour entraîner les plus forts… ou achever les plus faibles. Pressia n’a plus le choix, elle doit se préparer à fuir. Au loin brille le Dôme : un lieu sécurisé et aseptisé où une petite partie de la population, les Purs, s’est réfugiée avant la catastrophe. Partridge n’a qu’une idée en tête : en sortir pour retrouver sa mère. Pour ces deux adolescents, une question se pose : comment survivre dans ce monde postapocalyptique où tout est presque mort ?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Baggott's highly anticipated postapocalyptic horror novel, a dramatic shift from her lighthearted poetry, women's fiction (as Bridget Asher), and children's books, is a fascinating mix of stark, oppressive authoritarianism and grotesque anarchy. Like most survivors of the Detonations, teen Pressia is disfigured, a doll's head fused into the place where her hand should be. She's better off than people who were merged into each other, with animals, or even with the Earth itself, but she's also at risk of being drafted into the paramilitary Operation Sacred Revolution. The few who survived unscathed known as "Pures" live in the Domes, impenetrable arcologies where the few children are forced into rigid training and genetic enhancement. When Partridge, believing his mother to be alive in the wilderness, escapes from a Dome, he's rescued by Pressia. Along with a conspiracy theorist named Bradwell, they gradually discover dark secrets about events on both sides of the Dome walls. Baggott mixes brutality, occasional wry humor, and strong dialogue into an exemplar of the subgenre.
