About the book
‘Karen Russell is one in a million’ New York Times
From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America’s Dust Bowl.
Visit The Antidote of Uz – a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.
But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty – as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger.
To the Antidote’s surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way.
The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting – theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been – and what still could be.
‘A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination’ The Times
Editions of Antidote
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781784745639
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781784745646
- EBook
- ISBN 9781529932386
- AudioStreaming
- ISBN 9781529966695
Read an Excerpt
‘Karen Russell is one in a million’ New York Times
From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America’s Dust Bowl.
Visit The Antidote of Uz – a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.
But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty – as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger.
To the Antidote’s surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way.
The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting – theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been – and what still could be.
‘A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination’ The Times
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Antidote about?
‘Karen Russell is one in a million’ New York Times
From the Pulitzer shortlisted author, an astounding novel about magic, memory and land set America’s Dust Bowl.
Visit The Antidote of Uz – a prairie witch who can keep your memories safe. Speak into her emerald-green earhorn, and your secrets, your shames, your private joys, will leave your mind and enter hers.
But after the great dust storm that flattens wheatfields, buries houses and kills a newlywed couple just a few feet from their car, the Antidote wakes up empty – as bankrupt as America. If her customers ever find out, her life will be in danger.
To the Antidote’s surprising defence come a farmer, his basketball-playing niece and a Black photographer with her time-travelling camera. Apart, they run from the memories that have brought them to this lonely brink. Together, they face down the tornado coming their way.
The Antidote is above all a reckoning with a nation’s forgetting – theft, dispossession, wilful blindness, passed on generation to generation. The Dust Bowl echo with warnings of our own time, daring to challenge us with what might have been – and what still could be.
‘A brilliant writer with an amazing imagination’ The Times
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Antidote?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Where can I read a sample of Antidote?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781784745639
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Antidote?
Karen Russell
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Antidote is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781784745639) and paperback(ISBN 9781784745646) and ebook(ISBN 9781529932386) and audiostreaming(ISBN 9781529966695)
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