![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, the novel can boast of the finest literary pedigree, its author safely ensconced in the academy as a professor at Rice, and with both an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in hand: for such a relatively new writer, one can't get much more "literary" than that. If you've managed to escape all the buzz surrounding this if nothing else thoroughly marketed bestseller, as a piece of (post-/)apocalyptic fiction, The Passage does make for a fairly unusual case, coming neither from within the community of speculative fiction writers, nor from the world of the more mainstream thriller/bestseller. Ridley Scott certainly seems to think we need more post-apocalyptic vampire movies, as attested by the astonishing seven-figure deal he had signed with Cronin even before the publication of The Passage, but, after making my way through the first 100-year leg of this generation-spanning epic, I'm not persuaded that Cronin has taken the right approach to reinvigorate the glutted market of undead apocalypses. The Passage is the first entry in a planned trilogy of post-apocalyptic vampire novels, and, if that's all you've heard about it, you may well begin to wonder whether we really need more of that kind of novel. ![]()
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