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Apocalypse for Beginners by Nicolas Dickner
Requirements: ePUB reader, 348 KB
Overview: It’s getting harder and harder to make the end of the world seem interesting. Familiarity breeds contempt, even when it comes to the something as big as the apocalypse.
Indeed, among the more recent depictions of the end of days — and there have been so many, usually with war, plague, zombies, ecological disaster or some combination of all four playing a role — only a precious few have treated it with anything close to seriousness or dread. At a time when publishers are offering up tongue-in-cheek zombie survival guides and post-apocalyptic cookbooks, a work like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is an anomaly. (And even that was seen as approachable enough for Oprah viewers.)
Montreal’s Nicolas Dickner, in his second novel, eschews neither comedy nor gravitas in his own take on the end of the world, but the register he sticks to most faithfully is boredom. His is a story in which the concept of apocalypse is more a source of personal frustration than anything else. Unfortunately, his book enacts that frustration and boredom a little too faithfully.
Mickey Bauermann, the novel’s narrator, is the heir of Riviere-du-Loup concrete barons. His new best friend, Hope Randall, is part of a family in which each member, going back hundreds of years, has professed to know the exact date of the apocalypse, only to go mad once their chosen dates come and go without incident. Hope’s mother believes the date to lie somewhere in the summer of 1989, which is when the novel begins, with Hope and Mickey meeting just before the beginning of school and launching immediately into a conversation about the bomb that decimated Hiroshima.
Hope and Mickey spend the year hanging out in Mickey’s basement, nicknamed the Bunker, watching zombie movies, The Nature of Things (Hope is a big fan of David Suzuki, a frequent doomsayer himself) and newscasts tracking the fall of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the first Gulf War. Hope soon finds her own date of ultimate destruction — July 17, 2001 — on a package of ramen noodles, and is sent on a cross-country, then cross-ocean, quest to find a mysterious author who, without her knowing, predicted the very same date for the apocalypse
Genre: Fiction > Literary
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Requirements: ePUB reader, 348 KB
Overview: It’s getting harder and harder to make the end of the world seem interesting. Familiarity breeds contempt, even when it comes to the something as big as the apocalypse.
Indeed, among the more recent depictions of the end of days — and there have been so many, usually with war, plague, zombies, ecological disaster or some combination of all four playing a role — only a precious few have treated it with anything close to seriousness or dread. At a time when publishers are offering up tongue-in-cheek zombie survival guides and post-apocalyptic cookbooks, a work like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is an anomaly. (And even that was seen as approachable enough for Oprah viewers.)
Montreal’s Nicolas Dickner, in his second novel, eschews neither comedy nor gravitas in his own take on the end of the world, but the register he sticks to most faithfully is boredom. His is a story in which the concept of apocalypse is more a source of personal frustration than anything else. Unfortunately, his book enacts that frustration and boredom a little too faithfully.
Mickey Bauermann, the novel’s narrator, is the heir of Riviere-du-Loup concrete barons. His new best friend, Hope Randall, is part of a family in which each member, going back hundreds of years, has professed to know the exact date of the apocalypse, only to go mad once their chosen dates come and go without incident. Hope’s mother believes the date to lie somewhere in the summer of 1989, which is when the novel begins, with Hope and Mickey meeting just before the beginning of school and launching immediately into a conversation about the bomb that decimated Hiroshima.
Hope and Mickey spend the year hanging out in Mickey’s basement, nicknamed the Bunker, watching zombie movies, The Nature of Things (Hope is a big fan of David Suzuki, a frequent doomsayer himself) and newscasts tracking the fall of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the first Gulf War. Hope soon finds her own date of ultimate destruction — July 17, 2001 — on a package of ramen noodles, and is sent on a cross-country, then cross-ocean, quest to find a mysterious author who, without her knowing, predicted the very same date for the apocalypse
Genre: Fiction > Literary
Download Instructions:
http://www.toofile.com/o5h005s58d7l/Apo ... .epub.html
(Closed Filehost) https://uploadrocket.net/rjk43v3b5j6u/Ap ... .epub.html