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More copies of this ISBNLost Everythingby Brian Francis Slattery
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.
In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable. Lost Everything is a stunning novel about family and faith, what we are afraid may come to be, and how to wring hope from hopelessness. Review:"Acclaimed SF author Slattery's newest (after Liberation) chronicles two men's journey up the Susquehanna River and through an epically violent dystopian America. Sunny Jim and his friend Reverend Bauxite embark on their quest to locate Sunny Jim's lost son and wife before a nebulous, threatening storm ('the Big One') overtakes them. The ambiguity of the impending destruction is reminiscent of the calamity that preceded Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but Slattery's stream-of-consciousness style doesn't lend itself to effective pacing or moderation — death stains page after page, and the despair is so relentless it becomes uninteresting. Though there are moments of somber poetry (e.g., 'the last echoes of voices all came together in a fading thrum'), the novel ultimately fails to do what McCarthy did so well — to infuse a familiar landscape with enough light so the darkness stands out in relief. Slattery's dystopian U.S. is so bleak and heavy-handedly tragic, readers will likely tire of the trip long before the riverhead. (Apr.)" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Synopsis:From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling future history dystopia in the vein of 1984 or The Hunger Games.
Lost Everything is the story of a man who takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River, through a version of America thats been torn apart by a mysterious war, in order to find and rescue his lost wife and son. Slattery's prose moves seamlessly between present and past, action and memory. With Lost Everything, he celebrates the resilience and ingenuity of the American spirit. About the AuthorBrian Francis Slattery is an editor, writer, and musician living in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the co-editor of The New Haven Review, a book review journal, and the author of Spaceman Blues and Liberation.
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