A debut literary thriller about the disturbing measures a couple and their neighbours take to survive when the water runs dry without warning
Benjamin Warner teaches creative writing at Towson University. He holds an MFA from Cornell University. Thirst is his first novel. He lives in Baltimore, USA. benjaminwarner.net @RealBenWarner
A terrifying thriller ... Visceral
*Entertainment Weekly*
A compelling eco-thriller ... Thirst offers a thoroughly unsettling
vision of an all-too-believable near future
*Mail on Sunday, Thriller of the Week*
Fans of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road will find similar
end-of-the-world thrills in Thirst by Benjamin Warner …
Claustrophobic, neatly written and gripping
*Vogue, 'The Finest New Fiction'*
An emergency from its very first sentence, Thirst is a literary
thriller that summons the survivalist terror of The Road and the
beautiful, aching humanity of writers like Ursula K. Le Guin and
José Saramago. It’s also a tense, prescient journey into a
collective environmental nightmare — one that’s not very hard to
imagine actually happening. This book tapped into fears I didn’t
know I had. Warner has given us a worthy, shocking, and poetic
debut
*Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River and The
Cradle*
An intense post-apocalyptic scenario, which sees fresh water
disappearing, and parched people’s moral codes draining away just
as fast. Warner hones in on the details of survival and how
relationships and communities go to the bad in the face of
disaster
*Psychologies*
Gritty … Fans of post-Apocalyptic fiction will welcome Benjamin
Warner’s debut novel. It’s a disturbing, enigmatic book … Visceral
... It excels is in its gut-wrenching descriptions of how
dehydration ravages the body and mind
*Herald*
Thought-provoking ... You’ll be gripped as Eddie, Laura and their
neighbours turn back into one endangered tribe, trying to survive.
Keep some H20 handy while you read this…
*Best*
Thirst mirrors the deep anxiety so many feel about modern life:
that its complexity makes it fragile and that we're all living on
the edge of disaster
*Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow and Epitaph*
A gripping parable of love and survival as well as a harrowing
exploration of our darkest selves. Thrilling and thought-provoking,
and dazzling in scope, Benjamin Warner's debut is a surprising,
profound portrait of desperation and humanity — and who we are when
we are stripped down to our most basic needs
*Catherine Chung, author of Forgotten Country*
Warner’s devastating and breathtaking debut is a novel about water.
But it’s also about what it means to be in love, what it means to
share — or to think you are sharing — your life with another
person. This is a story about community (that ever slippery union)
and, further still, about humanity ... Warner taps into a
universal: Even at our lowest, our loneliest, and in our most
desperate hour, we are still human, still connected ... Read this
book. It will make you a better person
*Hannah Pittard, author of Reunion*
Thirst tracks the breakdown of society in slow motion from the
point of Eddie Chapman’s discovery that the water supply has dried
up. That there is no explanation for this doesn’t matter; the rural
setting, too, doesn’t feel especially American – Warner seems to be
aiming for the universalising opacity of Saramago’s Blindness …
Warner’s main focus is Eddie and his girlfriend and their struggle
to find water – hell, liquid of any sort, even pickling vinegar
*Guardian*
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