The Children's Hospital

Infobox Book
Title = The Children's Hospital


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author = Chris Adrian
country = USA
language = English
subject = Morality/Society
genre = Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
publisher = McSweeney's
media_type = Print (hardcover)
release_date = 2006
pages = 615 pp

The Children's Hospital is the second novel of Chris Adrian, and was published in 2006 by McSweeney's, the independent publisher run by author Dave Eggers.

Introduction

The Children's Hospital is a very long, ambitious work, with the first edition copies running some 615 pages long [http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Hospital-Chris-Adrian/dp/1932416609] . The novel starts with in the maternity ward of a famous hospital, with a third-year medical student named Jemma Claflin helping delivered another complicated birth while a storm rages outside. Shortly afterward, the world is desolated under a biblical flood seven miles deep, (note the Religious symbolism behind the number seven), [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701909.html] , and from there the rest of the novel is set up, as this serves as the driving plot behind it, as the survivors try to keep going, floating in a giant hospital, and still working to combat the illness of their patients.

Plot summary

References

*http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120701909.html
*http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Hospital-Chris-Adrian/dp/1932416609