The Crystal World

Book club edition. Dust jacket is good, save a one inch by two inch rectangle missing from the rear panel. Now wrapped in Brodart, this handsome illustration looks good from the front. The novel tells the story of a physician trying to make his way deep into the jungle to a secluded leprosy treatment facility. While trying to make it to his destination, his chaotic path leads him to try to come to terms with an apocalyptic phenomenon in the jungle that crystalizes everything it touches. 210 pages.