Description
Imagine a world without sleep. A world driven to the brink of exhaustion. A waking nightmare.
The world has stopped sleeping.
Restless nights have grown into days of panic, delirium and, eventually, desperation. But few and far between, sleepers can still be found - a gift they quickly learn to hide.
Matt Biggs is one of the sleepers.
After six restless days and nights, Biggs wakes to find his wife gone. He stumbles out of the house in search of her to find a world awash with pandemonium. Sleep, it seems, is now the rarest and most precious commodity and there are those who would kill to have it...
Imagine a world without sleep. A world driven to the brink of exhaustion. A waking nightmare.
About the Author
Kenneth Calhoun has published short fiction in The Paris Review, Tin House, and the 2011 Pen/O. Henry Prize Collection, among others. He has been awarded the Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction and the Summer Literary Seminars/Fence Magazine fiction contest. He is a Graphic Design professor at Lasell College in Boston. Black Moon is his first novel.
Reviews
Extraordinary... Horribly, terribly compelling -- Alison Flood * Sunday Times *
Heartstopping * Guardian *
Gripping... Terrifying yet terrific * Metro *
Brilliant * Daily Mail *
A gripping read... This is a book that will get you thinking - and thanking your lucky stars for a good night's sleep... I loved it -- Jenny Green * Sun *
Awards
Long-listed for PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction 2015 (UK).
Book Information
ISBN 9780099587347
Author Kenneth Calhoun
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 210g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm
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