The age of miracles : a novel / Karen Thompson Walker.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Random House, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 272 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0679644385 (ebook)
- 0812992970 (alk. paper)
- 9780679644385 (ebook)
- 9780812992977 (alk. paper)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Walker Kar | Available | 33111006980110 |
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"A stunner."--Justin Cronin
"It's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass--it's the ones you don't expect at all," says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change.
On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world--divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world.
"Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan's Emerald City ." --The Denver Post
"Pure magnificence."--Nathan Englander
"Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance."--Curtis Sittenfeld
"Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.