Lovecraft Country - Hardcover

Ruff, Matt

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509883347 ISBN 13: 9781509883349

Publisher: Picador, 2018

Synopsis

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite – heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors – they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn – led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb – which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his – and the whole Turner clan’s – destruction.

An imaginative blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

About this title

About the Author

Matt Ruff was born in 1965 in Queens, New York.

His novel, Lovecraft Country, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2017 in the novel category. Matt now lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife.

From the Back Cover

Soon to be a major new HBO series
from J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)

‘Ruff has great fun pitting mid-twentieth-century horror against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era’
New York Times Book Review

‘Lovecraft Country doesn’t just race along, it tears, demanding that you keep turning its pages without interruption’
Cory Doctorow

From the Inside Flap

CHICAGO, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George – publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide – and childhood friend Letitia. On their journey they encounter both the mundane terrors of white America and a more insidious threat ripped straight from the pages of the weird tales George devours . . .

The discovery of what has happened to his father is just the beginning as Atticus is forced to confront two evils each greater than the other in an America rocked by civil unrest.

In Lovecraft Country, award-winning author Matt Ruff delivers a compulsive, page-turning blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom. Fictional – and all too real – horrors are imaginatively entwined in a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism – the terrifying spectre that continues to haunt us today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509883347
• ISBN 13: 9781509883349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384