2.19.2011

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Young Readers in Dystopia - NYTimes.com

Where grown-up dystopian novels — books like “Oryx and Crake,” by Margaret Atwood; “The Pesthouse,” by Jim Crace; and “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy — lately seem to dwell on a vision of a bestial, plague-ridden world where civilization has collapsed, these new [young adult] books imagine something far worse: a world where civilization feels an awful lot like high school...

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