The Age of Miracles: A Novel
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品牌: Karen Thompson WalkerEmily Janice Card
基本信息出版社:Random House Audio (2012年6月26日)CD正文语种:英语ISBN:0307970698条形码:9780307970695商品重量:227 gASIN:0307970698您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介With a voice as distinctive and original as that ofThe Lovely Bones,and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’sThe Age of Miraclesis a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.
“It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.”
On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life—the fissures in her parents’ marriage, the loss of old friends, the hopeful anguish of first love, the bizarre behavior of her grandfather who, convinced of a government conspiracy, spends his days obsessively cataloging his possessions. As Julia adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.
From the Hardcover edition.媒体推荐Advance praise forThe Age of Miracles
“[A] gripping debut … Thompson’s Julia is the perfect narrator … While the apocalypse looms large—has in fact already arrived—the narrative remains fiercely grounded in the surreal and horrifying day-to-day and the personal decisions that persist even though no one knows what to do. A triumph of vision, language, and terrifying momentum, the story also feels eerily plausible, as if the problems we’ve been worrying about all along pale in comparison to what might actually bring our end.”—Publishers Weekly(STARRED REVIEW)
“What a remarkable and beautifully wrought novel. In its depiction of a world at once utterly like and unlike our own, THE AGE OF MIRACLES is so convincingly unsettling that it just might make you stockpile emergency supplies of batteries and bottled water. It also--thank goodness--provides great solace with its wisdom, its compassion, and the elegance of its story-telling.”
—Curtis Sittenfeld, author ofPrep
"'Miracles' indeed. Karen Thompson Walker's debut novel is a stunner from the first page—an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel and can't wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next."
—Justin Cronin, author ofThe Passage
“Is the end near? In Karen Thompson Walker's beautiful and frightening debut, sunsets are becoming rarities, "real-timers" live in daylight colonies while mainstream America continues to operate on the moribund system of "Clock Time," and environmentalists rail against global dependence on crops that guzzle light. Against this apocalyptic backdrop, Walker sets the coming-of-age story of brave, bewildered Julia, who wonders at the "malleable rhythms" of the increasingly erratic adults around her. Like master fabulists Steven Millhauser and Kevin Brockmeier, Karen Thompson Walker takes a fantastic premise and makes it feel thrillingly real. In precise, poetic language, she floods the California suburbs with shadows and a doomsday glow, and in this altered light shows us amazing things about how one family responds to a stunningly imagined global crisis.”
--Karen Russell, author ofSwamplandia!
“This is what imagination is. InThe Age of Miracles,the earth's rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight. In the midst of this, a young girl falls in loves, sees things she shouldn't and suffers heartbreak of the most ordinary kind. Karen Thompson Walker has managed to combine fiction of the dystopian future with an incisive and powerful portrait of our personal present.”
—Amy Bloom, author ofAway
“THE AGE OF MIRACLES is pure magnificence. Deeply moving and beatifully executed, Karen Thompson Walker has written the perfect novel for the global-warming age.”
—Nathan Englander, author ofFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges
"ReadingThe Age of Miracles is like gazing into a sky of constellations and being mesmerized by the the strange yet familiar sensation of infinity. Beautifully written, the novel lets the readers see the world within us and the world without with an unforgettable freshness."
--Yiyun Li,author ofGold Boy, Emerald Girl
“The Age of Miraclesspins its glowing magic through incredibly lucid and honest prose, giving equal care and dignity to the small spheres and the large. It is at once a love letter to the world as we know it and an elegy.”—Aimee Bender, author ofThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Gripping from first page to last,The Age of Miraclesis itself a small, perfectly formed miracle: Written with the cadence and pitch of poetry, this gem of a novel is a wrenching and all-too-believable parable for our times, and one of the most original coming-of-age stories I have ever read. Karen Thompson Walker is the real deal.”—Dani Shapiro, author ofDevotion
“The Age of Miraclesis harrowing and beautiful on the ways in which those catastrophes already hidden about us in plain sight, once ratcheted up just a bit, provide us with a glimpse of the end of our species’ run on earth: the uncanny distress of hundreds of beached whales, or the surreal unease of waves rolling across the rooftops of beachfront houses. And as it does it reminds us of all of the miracles of human regard that will have taken place before then: the way compassion will retain its resilience, and the way, for those of us in love, a string of afternoons will be as good as a year.”
—Jim Shepard, author ofLike You’d Understand, Anyway(National Book Award finalist)
From the Hardcover edition.
