Red Moon: A Novel - Brossura

Percy, Benjamin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1455501670 ISBN 13: 9781455501670

Casa editrice: Grand Central Pub, 2015

Riassunto

"A werewolf epic. Can't stop thinking about it."--Stephen King

They live among us.

They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.

They change.

When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.

Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero.

Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin.

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"Percy's latest novel is a smart, action-packed political thriller. . . . It's a high-wire literary act that the author pulls off with panache."―Entertainment Weekly's "Must List"

"It would be tempting, or at least easier, to put Percy's book in the werewolf subgenre, but Red Moon is much more than that. Dark, bloody, violent, relentlessly grounded in the post-9/11 world and the Pacific Northwest, not without humor but sparing in its application, Red Moon could well serve as the Heart of Darkness of a new, more anxious generation, one that must somehow come to terms with the enemies, real or perceived, who live quietly among us."―The Oregonian

"Smart and brisk and often poetic...Percy knows how to draw intense, dramatic scenes as the world goes feral."―Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Terrifying and tense."―Chicago Tribune

"Benjamin Percy is one of the most gifted and versatile writers to appear in American publishing in years. His degree of craft and natural talent are extraordinary; his ear for language is absolutely perfect. His prose has the masculine power of Ernest Hemingway's, but also the sensibilities and compassion of Eudora Welty. His writing is like a meeting of Shakespeare and rock 'n' roll. Benjamin Percy knows how to keep it in E-major, and what a ride it is."―James Lee Burke, author of Feast Day of Fools

"Percy has a lusty flair for describing destruction. . . . When Claire and Patrick take the field, the book lights up, and the writing possesses a resonant, emotional honesty. . . . The story is imaginative and lots of fun, and it will deservedly charm many readers."―Justin Cronin, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)

"[A] stunning new read."―O, The Oprah Magazine

"An intelligent, topical thriller."―Los Angeles Times

"A powerfully written alternative history."―Tampa Bay Times

"Don't mistake this book for anything less than a great literary achievement; Red Moon is, in all likelihood, the most well-written werewolf novel you will come across."―New York Observer

L'autore

Benjamin Percy has won a Whiting Writers Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novel The Wilding and two short story collections, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk (available as an ebook from Grand Central Publishing). He lives in Minnesota with his family. For more information, you can visit www.BenjaminPercy.com.

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• Editore: Grand Central Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1455501670
• ISBN 13: 9781455501670
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 676