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- Condition
- Very Good
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- Pages
- 272
- Signed By
- Colson Whitehead
- Publication Date
- 2011-10-18
- Signed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780385528078
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385528078
ISBN-13
9780385528078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102756314
Product Key Features
Book Title
Zone One : a Novel
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Horror, Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-008339
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE: "A satirist so playful that you often don''t even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee. Here he upends the tropes of the zombie story in the canyons of lower Manhattan.Horror has rarely been so unsettling, and never so grimly funny." --The Daily Beast "Highbrow novelist Colson Whitehead plunges into the unstoppable zombie genre in this subtle meditation on loss and love in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has become the city that never dies." --USA Today "For-real literary -- gory, lyrical, human, precise." --GQ "The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud&[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantlywith a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is.A deft, wily, and unerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire." -- Booklist , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review "Colson Whitehead is quickly becomingone of the country's most exciting young writers." --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: "[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world." John Updike, The New Yorker "Colson Whitehead&[is] a large and vibrant talent&This is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully." The New York Observer "Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists." - Boston Globe "No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead." - USA Today "Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit&.You can't help but admire Whitehead's writerly gifts." The Los Angeles Times "Whitehead can write sentences like nobody's business." Bloomberg "Whitehead's engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb." - The Miami Herald "[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument." - The Nation "Whitehead [is] one of the city's and country's finest young writers." Chicago Tribune "Ebullient, supremely confident." San Diego Union Tribune "A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken." - The Village Voice, PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE: “The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud&[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantlywith a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot’s Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears.� -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is.A deft, wily, and unerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire." -- Booklist , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review “Colson Whitehead is quickly becomingone of the country’s most exciting young writers.� --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: “[Whitehead’s] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.� – John Updike, The New Yorker “Colson Whitehead&[is] a large and vibrant talent&This is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully.� – The New York Observer “Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists.� - Boston Globe “No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead.� - USA Today “Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit&.You can’t help but admire Whitehead’s writerly gifts.� – The Los Angeles Times “Whitehead can write sentences like nobody’s business.� – Bloomberg “Whitehead’s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb.� - The Miami Herald “[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument.� - The Nation “Whitehead [is] one of the city’s and country’s finest young writers.� – Chicago Tribune “Ebullient, supremely confident.� – San Diego Union Tribune “A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken.� - The Village Voice, PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE : " THE BEST BOOK OF THE FALL...a book you want to read rather than one you should read." -- Esquire " [Whitehead] takes the genre of horror fiction, mines both its sense of humor and self-seriousness, and emerges with a brilliant allegory of New York living." -- New York Observer "Highbrow novelist Colson Whitehead plunges into the unstoppable zombie genre in this subtle meditation on loss and love in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has become the city that never dies." --USA Today "For-real literary -- gory, lyrical, human, precise." --GQ "A satirist so playful that you often don''t even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee. Here he upends the tropes of the zombie story in the canyons of lower Manhattan. Horror has rarely been so unsettling, and never so grimly funny." --The Daily Beast "The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud…[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantly with a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is. A deft, wily, and unerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire." -- Booklist , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review "Colson Whitehead is quickly becoming one of the country's most exciting young writers." --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: "[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world." John Updike, The New Yorker "Colson Whitehead…[is] a large and vibrant talent…This is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully." The New York Observer "Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists." - Boston Globe "No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead." - USA Today "Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit….You can't help but admire Whitehead's writerly gifts." The Los Angeles Times "Whitehead can write sentences like nobody's business." Bloomberg "Whitehead's engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb." - The Miami Herald "[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument." - The Nation "Whitehead [is] one of the city's and country's finest young writers." Chicago Tribune "Ebullient, supremely confident." San Diego Union Tribune "A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken." - The Village Voice, PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE: "A satirist so playful that you often don''t even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee. Here he upends the tropes of the zombie story in the canyons of lower Manhattan.Horror has rarely been so unsettling, and never so grimly funny." --The Daily Beast "Highbrow novelist Colson Whitehead plunges into the unstoppable zombie genre in this subtle meditation on loss and love in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has become the city that never dies." --USA Today "The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud&[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantlywith a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is.A deft, wily, and unerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire." -- Booklist , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review "Colson Whitehead is quickly becomingone of the country's most exciting young writers." --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: "[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world." John Updike, The New Yorker "Colson Whitehead&[is] a large and vibrant talent&This is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully." The New York Observer "Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists." - Boston Globe "No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead." - USA Today "Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit&.You can't help but admire Whitehead's writerly gifts." The Los Angeles Times "Whitehead can write sentences like nobody's business." Bloomberg "Whitehead's engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb." - The Miami Herald "[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument." - The Nation "Whitehead [is] one of the city's and country's finest young writers." Chicago Tribune "Ebullient, supremely confident." San Diego Union Tribune "A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken." - The Village Voice, PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE: “The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud&[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantlywith a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot’s Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears.� -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review “Colson Whitehead is quickly becomingone of the country’s most exciting young writers.� --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: “[Whitehead’s] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.� – John Updike, The New Yorker “Colson Whitehead&[is] a large and vibrant talent&This is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully.� – The New York Observer “Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists.� - Boston Globe “No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead.� - USA Today “Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit&.You can’t help but admire Whitehead’s writerly gifts.� – The Los Angeles Times “Whitehead can write sentences like nobody’s business.� – Bloomberg “Whitehead’s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb.� - The Miami Herald “[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument.� - The Nation “Whitehead [is] one of the city’s and country’s finest young writers.� – Chicago Tribune “Ebullient, supremely confident.� – San Diego Union Tribune “A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken.� - The Village Voice, "The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud&[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantly with a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild-ing civilization under orders from the provisional govern-ment based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams work-ing in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One bril-liantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century., In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street--aka Zone One--but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety--the "malfunctioning" stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. Alternating between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, the novel unfolds over three surreal days, as it depicts the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and the impossible job of coming to grips with the fallen world. And then things start to go wrong. Both spine chilling and playfully cerebral, Zone One brilliantly subverts the genre's conventions and deconstructs the zombie myth for the twenty-first century.
LC Classification Number
PS3573.H4768Z36 2011
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