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Also by Chris Adrian:

The New World, May 2015
e-Book
The Great Night, May 2011
Hardcover
Tin House: Evil, April 2007
Paperback
The Children's Hospital, September 2006
Hardcover

Also by Eli Horowitz:

The New World, May 2015
e-Book
The Clock Without a Face, May 2010
Hardcover

THE NEW WORLD
By: Chris Adrian, Eli Horowitz

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
224 pages
ISBN: 0374712220
EAN: 9780374712228
Kindle: B00OFKKDFI
e-Book
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Fiction

An innovative story of love, decapitation, cryogenics, and memory by two of our most creative literary minds

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seem to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quite--rather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious, disembodied voice.

In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. Conceived in collaboration with Atavist Books, The New World interrogates love and loss in the digital era.

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