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Una pandemia ha devastato la Terra, lasciando gli esseri umani divisi in due categorie: i vivi e i morti viventi. Guidati da un governo provvisorio stabilitosi a Buffalo, gli americani cercano di restaurare la civiltà. Il loro primo obiettivo è spazzare via da Manhattan le ultime sacche di resistenza, rappresentate da soggetti infetti che non si sono trasformati in zombie ma si trovano in uno stato semicatatonico. Mark Spitz fa parte di una delle squadre di civili che lavorano nella zona sud dell'isola. È un personaggio tortuoso, fosco, confuso. Il suo mondo, il mondo in cui si muove, è un inferno di ludica violenza dove le tracce della follia umana e i danni di un capitalismo aggressivo coesistono con il disperato desiderio di ritrovare la propria umanità.
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- Pagine: 312
- Data di uscita: 03-09-2013
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looking for great books to read during black history month...and the other eleven months? i'm going to float some of my favorites throughout the month, and i hope they will find new readers! AHHHHHHHH!!! jesus christ, but colson whitehead can write. i read the intuitionist way back when everyone was Leggi tutto
Start spreading the news. I’m leaving today There is a lot to sink your teeth into in the latest book from MacArthur Genius grantee Colson Whitehead. The nation has pretty much collapsed, with the implication that things are no better elsewhere in the world. But there is still some hope. A provisio Leggi tutto
Damn, this book is cold. Like, really, really, C-O-L-D. The language is magnificent; there is no doubt Whitehead can write, but he writes with no heat. His writing here is like a perfect, shiny new Cadillac (but with no engine). Without the engine, what’s the point? You can sit and look pretty all t Leggi tutto
FRIDAY mark monday got up at his usual hour, in his usual bed, and after leisurely winding his way through his various morning routines, made his way to work, to perform his usual functions. it was a friday, a day where most of his colleagues found reasons to be elsewhere - appointments and such - an Leggi tutto
”He hooked up with strangers for a while, exchanged a grimy jar of cranberry sauce or a juice box per the new greeting ritual, and swapped information on the big matters of the day, like dead concentrations, and small things like the state of the world. A few months into the collapse, only the fools Leggi tutto
Unbearable. That's all I can say. I bailed about one-quarter of the way in. I am so done, I don't want to bother reviewing, but I need to dig my head out of the word salad that was this book and warn fellow readers. Are there commandments for novel writing? If there are, I want to submit these for co Leggi tutto
When the zombie apocalypse comes there’ll be a lot of inconveniences. The breakdown of society, lack of electrical power, no hot showers and undead cannibals trying to eat your brains will definitely suck, but I always figured that the trade-off was that at least there’d be no more paying bills, sta Leggi tutto
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