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The Blurb On The Back:
The clocks ticked as usual.
Yet the seconds bled into minutes.
Minutes grew into hours.
Hours into days of complete and total darkness followed by the scorching bright light.
Imagine having more hours in the day …
Think how time rules our lives. But what if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day became night and night became day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a family and a young girl, who is already coping with the normal catastrophes of her everyday life?
”People heard the news and they wanted to move. Families piled into minivans and crossed state lines. They scurried in every direction like small animals caught suddenly under a light.
But, of course, there was nowhere on earth to go.”
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel is a literary take on apocalypse fiction that turns a global tragedy into a beautifully constructed, beautifully written set of individual disasters that kept me turning the pages until the very end and left me wanting more. I believed in the characters and I believed in the apocalyptic scenario from beginning to end. I can’t wait to read Walker’s next book.
THE AGE OF MIRACLES is released in the UK on 21st June 2012. Thanks to Simon & Schuster for the ARC of this book.
Yet the seconds bled into minutes.
Minutes grew into hours.
Hours into days of complete and total darkness followed by the scorching bright light.
Imagine having more hours in the day …
Think how time rules our lives. But what if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day became night and night became day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the whales in the sea, the astronauts in space, and on a family and a young girl, who is already coping with the normal catastrophes of her everyday life?
But, of course, there was nowhere on earth to go.”
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel is a literary take on apocalypse fiction that turns a global tragedy into a beautifully constructed, beautifully written set of individual disasters that kept me turning the pages until the very end and left me wanting more. I believed in the characters and I believed in the apocalyptic scenario from beginning to end. I can’t wait to read Walker’s next book.
THE AGE OF MIRACLES is released in the UK on 21st June 2012. Thanks to Simon & Schuster for the ARC of this book.
