Liz Harmer
Autor de The Amateurs
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- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 67
- Popularidad
- #256,179
- Valoración
- 3.3
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- 2
- ISBNs
- 8
“People had left in trickles. For a long time, their leaving had barely been noticeable—until things began to collapse: workers not showing up to clear debris on the highway, police not coming when called. What PINA called “the first wave” had included a flood of think pieces and blog posts and interviews and rants, and an unholy number of tweets about the merits of leaving or not, comparing the art of leaving to suicide… …One percent of the population left and you hardly knew it. But the so-called “second wave” was more frightening. The grip of society fell lank, like the hands of a patient whose anesthesia was taking effect. Even close to the PINA campus there was, along with the clicking of crickets and howls of God knew what—mountain lions? bears?—a night chorus of gunshots and squealing tires. Then came the third wave: the grid went down and the darkness expanded in every direction…. “
Set in a time that could be today, The Amateurs follows two survivors of the fad (?), The first , Marie, is an artist still living with her dog above her once thriving art shop in the Ontario area. She is one of a community of forty-two, and who meet regularly in the town’s Anglican cathedral for support, and to discuss pressing issues related to their survival. Second is Brandon, the young, Ivy-league-educated, spin doctor person for Albrecht Door, PINA’s brilliant, perpetually optimistic leader. Both Brandon and Doors are among the thousand or so survivors at the PINA campus. Both Marie and Brandon are well thought out characters who evolve over the course of the book
The Amateurs is an addictive novel, the prose is seductive, the setting so close to “now” to be uncomfortably familiar. While the idea of “Port” is science fictional, the response to it is completely recognizable. Why are some never tempted by Port and so many others are? Why does it seem that no one is willing to return? This is not your usual dark & dirty post-apocalyptic tale, (perhaps because it is set before desperation sets in?). It’s engaging, thoughtful, and wields a powerful meditation on desire and longing. (And it’s kind of fun). Once started, it is hard to put down.… (más)