Noah Hawley’s Anthem: Fiction Previews, Jan. 2022, Pt. 2 | Prepub Alert

by Barbara Hoffert
Jun 29, 2021 | Filed in Reviews+

Before the Fall author Hawley returns with a new thriller.

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Hawley, Noah. Anthem. Grand Central. Jan. 2022. 400p. ISBN 9781538711514. $28. lrg. prnt. CD. THRILLER

Award-winning screenwriter/director/producer Hawley’s recent Before the Fall won lavish love, New York Times best-selling credentials, and both Edgar and ITW thriller honors. So cover of Hawley's Anthem it’s no surprise that his new literary thriller is being billed as the first big novel of 2022. With opioid addiction, environmental devastation, and clownface-dabbed vigilantes corroding their surroundings, U.S. teens desperately communicate with memes only they know and understand. Seeking to mend his grief over his sister’s death, Simon Oliver attends the Float Anxiety Abatement Center near Chicago, where he meets Louise and The Prophet and joins in their wild-hare quest to free a young woman from a dangerous man called The Wizard. Immediate concerns within an ageless mission-driven, phantasmagorical format.

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Barbara Hoffert

Barbara Hoffert (bhoffert@mediasourceinc.com, @BarbaraHoffert on Twitter) is Editor, LJ Prepub Alert; winner of ALA's Louis Shores Award for reviewing; and past president, awards chair, and treasurer of the National Book Critics Circle, which awarded her its inaugural Service Award in 2023.

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