Authors: Daniel Keyes
ISBN-13: 9781929519026, ISBN-10: 1929519028
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Challenge Press, Incorporated
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: Revised Edition
When Karen Stark becomes pregnant, she and Barney are overjoyed. They ve wanted a baby for so long. After an industrial accident, Barney unknowingly spreads radioactive dust into his neighborhood, into his home, and onto his wife s body. As frightened friends and neighbors become enemies, the dream of becoming parents turns into a nightmare. . .
Gripping, well-plotted book. . . radiation contamination has provided Keyes with a macabre and unusually provocative idea for a novel and he exploits it with narrative skill.