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Touched : a novel / Walter Mosley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover editionDescription: 159 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802161840
  • 0802161847
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: "Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."-- Provided by publisher.Summary: Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness - equipped with unprecedented physical strength - to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman - the pale, white-haired embodiment of death who wears a dapper suit, carries a cane, and seeks to destroy all life with his fatal touch. Martin must convince his family of the danger and get them to engage with him in a battle beyond all imagining.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction New MOSLEY, WALTER Available 33111011091341
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Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction New MOSLEY, WALTER Checked out 05/11/2024 33111011139058
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosivestandoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasythat could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of thecountry's most beloved and acclaimed writers

Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feelslike, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate piecesof knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he isthe Cure.

Martin begins slipping into an alternateconsciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--theonly Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles-- againstpure evil. Think Octavia Butler meets Jeff VanderMeer meets Jordan Peele.

Expansive and innovative, sexy and satirical, Touched brilliantly imagines the ways in which human life and technologicalinnovation threaten existence itself.

"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."-- Provided by publisher.

Martin, his wife, and his two children are the only Black family on their neighborhood block in the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles. Suddenly, Martin is both father and Antibody, husband and Cure, occasionally slipping into an alternate consciousness - equipped with unprecedented physical strength - to violently defend them. The family is stalked by Tor Waxman - the pale, white-haired embodiment of death who wears a dapper suit, carries a cane, and seeks to destroy all life with his fatal touch. Martin must convince his family of the danger and get them to engage with him in a battle beyond all imagining.

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