{"product_id":"the-colony-paperback-8","title":"The Colony - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEugenics, body horror, eros, and medical ethics collide is this \"ambitious, provocative, and wildly inventive\" dystopian satire (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anne Hatley is a sharp-witted and acerbic young teacher in need of a reprieve from the drudgery of work and a tedious relationship. She accepts an invitation to the nation's largest research colony, where DNA pioneer James D. Watson hopes to \"cure\" Anne of a rare gene that affects her bone growth: She is missing a leg, and walks with a prosthesis. Though getting along fine, she's being pressured to pioneer an experimental procedure, and be the first patient to generate a new limb. As Anne falls into a reluctant romance with a fellow colonist--the rakish possessor of the \"suicide gene\"--and consults a resurrected Charles Darwin and a dugong-bred mermaid, Anne must first come to terms with who she is, before she ever dares to decide who she can become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Part Wellsian dystopia, part medical mystery, part Hawthornian allegory, and part reality show, \u003ci\u003eThe Colony\u003c\/i\u003e is a potent exploration of ethics in the Age of the Genome (Chris Bachelder, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Throwback Special\u003c\/i\u003e). It's also a \"hilarious, deeply moving, sexy, scary novel . . . about finding love, finding a home, finding family, and all the other doomed experiments we conduct in the hope in making a better human\" (Brock Clarke, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Price of the Haircut\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJillian Weise\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Amputee's Guide to Sex\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goodbyes\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Isabella Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eA Public Space, The Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. Weise is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, the Lannan Foundation, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an Associate Professor at Clemson University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.13 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 16, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46363333558407,"sku":"9781593762674","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1OquYnwugk9781593762674.webp?v=1793296276","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-colony-paperback-8","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}