Above the ether : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781628729986 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1628729988
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Physical Description:
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245 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Arcade Publishing, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | Prequel to: The city where we once lived. |
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Subject: | Climatic changes -- Fiction Future, The -- Fiction Survival -- Fiction |
Genre: | Science Fiction. Dystopian fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Kitimat Public Library | Bar (Text) | 32665002195826 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Quesnel Branch | BAR (Text) | 33923006162576 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"... six sets of characters move through a landscape and a country just beginning to show the signs of cataclysmic change. A father and his young children fleeing a tsunami after a massive earthquake in the Gulf. A woman and her husband punishing themselves without relent for the loss of both their sons to addiction, while wildfires slowly burn closer to their family home. A brilliant investor, assessing opportunity in the risk to crops, homes, cities, industries, and infrastructure, working in the silent comfort of her office sixty floors up in the scorching air. A doctor and his wife stuck in a refugee camp for immigrants somewhere in a southern desert. Two young men working the rides for a roadside carnival, one escaping a brutal past, the other a racist present. The manager of a chain of nondescript fast-food restaurants in a city ravaged by the relentless wind. While every night the news alternates images of tsunami destruction with the baseball scores, the characters converge on a city where the forces of change have already broken-- a city half abandoned, with one part left to be scavenged as the levee system protecting it slowly fails-- until, in their vehicles on the highway that runs through it, they witness the approach of what looks to be just one more violent storm."-- Dust jacket flap.