A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
Autor Raymond A. Villarealen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789091885
ISBN-10: 1789091888
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Titan Books
ISBN-10: 1789091888
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Titan Books
Descriere
In this wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something inhuman, upending society as we know it.
Notă biografică
Raymond
Villarealis
a
graduate
of
the
University
of
Texas
School
of
Law,
and
is
currently
a
practicing
attorney.
This
is
his
first
novel.
Recenzii
"Vampire
Uprisingis
well
worth
a
bite:
The
creature-feature
crew
will
discover
that
recognizable
tropes
can
feel
fresh,
and
readers
who
aren't
horror
fiends
will
find
a
beguiling
entry
into
the
thoughts
of
Dracula
and
his
ilk
living
among
us."
(3
out
of
4
stars)
"Relentlessly clever first novel...Villareal's cheeky blend of political satire and gothic thriller is enhanced by his background as an attorney and his deft use of convincing details...This wild ride of a novel proves that each era gets the vampires it deserves."—The Washington Post
"A full-on vampire infestation - or is it a colonization? - hits Earth, as documented in this zippy read via a clever series of narratives, interviews, historical documents, and newspaper reports."—Daneet Steffens,The Boston Globe
"Strikingly original . . . Daring, exciting . . . It's a wild ride in this world Villareal has created. . . . In 1976 withInterview with the VampireAnne Rice smashed and recreated vampire mythology and lore--beginning a new era of vampire literature. Now perhaps it isA People's History of the Vampire Uprising's time to reinvent the genre."—Désirée Zamorano,Los Angeles Review of Books
New York Post"20 Best Reads for Your Summer Break"
"This page-turner isjust shy of being too smart for its own good."—The Texas Observer
Included in Lit Hub's "Crime Reads" round up for the"Summer's Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thrillers,"
"Using
vampires
as
stand-ins
for
those
who
experience
other-ing
by
the
state
and
as
a
way
to
explore
growing
xenophobia
in
the
United
States
today"
—Lit
Hub"A wide-angle, wild and weird exploration of politics, pop culture, and a diseased America. This tale of misguided hero worship and encroaching terror may be the perfect analogy for our own strange times."—Thomas Mullen, author of theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize finalistDarktown
"Told in the jumbled, frenetic urgency of a discarded case file, this is the history of both a social movement and a vector for disease. Mr. Villareal's vampires are not the ones we find most comforting. They are not seductive or beautiful or tormented anti-heroes. No, they are more terrifying than anything like that, an infection that will spread throughout our body politic, our institutions, our history, and ourselves."—Paul Park, author ofThe White TygerandAll Those Vanished Engines
"A major document dump--and that's a good thing! We have it all here: a complete oral history of how our world--our species--changed forever. Raymond Villareal's sense of fun is palpable as he plays with legal thrillers; good, old, dogged police work; international intrigue; hard science; dirty politics; and, yes, classic, heart-stopping horror. Somewhere, Dracula himself is sitting up late into the day enjoying the hell out of this."—John Griesemer, author of Signal & Noise and filmmaker of the web series Parmalee
"A People's History of the Vampire Uprisingis that rarest of rare creatures, an absolutely unique work of the writer's art that, while drawing on several distinct streams of narrative style, emerges from all of those rivers without any parallels... Villareal starts this brilliant sideways take on the vampire genre by setting up 'The Gloamings'--his sardonic name for the vampire changelings that are the book's driving force--as a problem for, get this, the Center for Disease Control, a witty--and risky--take that, in less skilled hands, could have forced the book into a narrative box car on a one-way track to Been There Ville. Because Villareal has the skills to hold several competing plot-lines and a cast of intriguing characters in his head and the talent to deal them out with economy, style, and a sardonic wit, the book becomes, among other gonzo things, a political parable for these lunatic times, a horror story, a trip down some of the darkest corridors of The Ancient World, and finally, an oddly epiphanic take on what it means, exactly, to be human. It cries out to be made into--not a movie--it's too good for that--but into a television series, and when this happens, and it will, I'll be binge-watching it.
Well
done,
Raymond
Villareal.
Welcome
to
the
world
of
writers,
and
may
God
save
your
immortal
soul."
—Carsten
Stroud,
author
of
Niceville