Description
In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and political unrest, a fundamentalist faction emerges. As the Novae Terrae gain power, enticing civilians with bread and circuses, a civil war breaks out between its members and the U.S. government. Mazzy Goodwin, a young soldier, wants only to find her little sister, Ava Lynn. One day, she wakes in a bomb crater to find wings have sprouted from her back. Has she died? Been given wings by God? Undergone a military experiment? The world sees a miracle. Mazzy is coaxed into seeing it as an opportunity: to become the angel-like figurehead of the revolution in return for being reunited with her sister. Her journey leads her to New Los Angeles, where the Novae have set up the headquarters for their propaganda machine-right in the ruins of Hollywood. Aided by friends old and new, she must navigate a web of deceit while staying true to herself. Told in sharp, haunting prose as cinematic as it is precise, Alan Heathcock's 40 is a dizzyingly fantastical novel about the dangers of blind faith, the temptation of spectacle, and the love of family. In a tale by turns mythic and tragic, one heroine must come to terms with the consequences of her decisions and face the challenges of building a new world.
A fantastical tale of religious war, spectacle, and natural disaster set in the Los Angeles of the future.
About the Author
Alan Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. His story collection, VOLT, was a 'Best Book of the Year' selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune, was named as a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250872142
Author Alan Heathcock
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Picador USA
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 382g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 135mm * 20mm
A fantastical tale of religious war, spectacle, and natural disaster set in the Los Angeles of the future.
About the Author
Alan Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. His story collection, VOLT, was a 'Best Book of the Year' selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune, was named as a New York Times Editors' Choice, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Award.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250872142
Author Alan Heathcock
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Picador USA
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 382g
Dimensions(mm) 209mm * 135mm * 20mm
