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Название:
The Rapture
Автор:
Liz Jensen
Издательство:
Doubleday
Жанр:
Триллер / ya / на английском языке
Год:
2009
Город:
New York
ISBN:
978-0385528214
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An electrifying story of science, faith, love, and self-destruction in a world on the brink. But Gabrielle Fox’s main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her life after a devastating car accident that has left her disconnected from the world, a prisoner of her own guilt and grief. Determined to make a fresh start, and shake off memories of her wrecked past, she leaves London for a temporary posting as an art therapist at Oxsmith Adolescent Secure Psychiatric Hospital, home to one hundred of the most dangerous children in the country. Among them: the teenage killer Bethany Krall.
Despite two years of therapy, Bethany is in no way rehabilitated and remains militantly nonchalant about the bloody, brutal death she inflicted on her mother. Raised in evangelistic hellfire, the teenager is violent, caustic, unruly, and cruelly intuitive. She is also insistent that her electroshock treatments enable her to foresee natural disasters—a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of doomsday delusion.
But as Gabrielle delves further into Bethany’s psyche, she begins to note alarming parallels between her patient’s paranoid disaster fantasies and actual incidents of geological and meteorological upheaval—coincidences her professionalism tells her to ignore but that her heart cannot. When a brilliant physicist enters the equation, the disruptive tension mounts—and the stakes multiply. Is the self-proclaimed Nostradamus of the psych ward the ultimate manipulator or a harbinger of global disaster on a scale never seen before? Where does science end and faith begin? And what can love mean in “interesting times”?
With gothic intensity, Liz Jensen conjures the increasingly unnerving relationship between the traumatized therapist and her fascinating, deeply calculating patient. As Bethany’s warnings continue to prove accurate beyond fluke and she begins to offer scientifically precise hints of a final, world-altering cataclysm, Gabrielle is confronted with a series of devastating choices in a world in which belief has become as precious—and as murderous—as life itself.

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London Paper

‘Liz Jensen always manages to spook her readers with her mind-bendingly original blend of contemporary Gothic, zeitgeist anxiety and scientific possibility.’

Metro

‘A fast-paced plot buoyed by a wealth of paranormal intrigue… Jensen skirts the moral boundaries without shrillness, exposing humanity as less wicked than wilfully myopic.’

TLS

‘Jensen is a talented writer who makes her characters entirely plausible… Pair this with a supporting cast of dedicated scientists, bureaucratic villains and a narcissistic fundamentalist preacher, and you’ve got the ingredients for a first-class page-turner.’

National Post , Canada

‘Jensen’s pace at raising the stakes is enacted with the precise efficiency of a pro; she satisfies the reader’s burgeoning desires at every turn, pulling out the stops for the novel’s climax, where she delivers titanically… A rompingly good apocalyptic read.’

Toronto Globe and Mail

‘One of the very few books I have dreamed about… A terrifically gripping read.’

Romola Garai, Observer Books of the Year

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First published in Great Britain 2009

This electronic edition published 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The right of Liz Jensen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

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eISBN: 978-1-40880-906-8

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