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Cold as Thunder

Autor Jerry Apps
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mai 2018
Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the open internet has been replaced by the network of the New Society Corporation. Environmental degradation and unchecked climate change have brought raging wildfires to the Western states and disastrous flooding to Eastern coastal regions.

In the Midwest, a massive storm sends Lake Michigan surging over the Door County peninsula, and thousands of refugees flee inland. In the midst of this apocalypse, a resourceful band of Wisconsin sixty-somethings calling themselves the Oldsters lays secret plans to fight the ruling regime's propaganda and show people how to think for themselves.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299315900
ISBN-10: 0299315908
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Recenzii

"In his newest novel, Apps imagines a future where the values of a free society have been undermined by determined oligarchs. He does not settle for a grim dystopia but creates a world in which citizens fight back." —Dennis Boyer, author of Listen to the Land

"Jerry Apps has woven a tale that is fast paced, frightening, exciting, and eerily prescient." —Bill Berry, author of Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way

Notă biografică

Jerry Apps is the author of more than thirty-five books on rural history and country life, including his series of Ames County novels. He is profiled in two documentaries aired nationally on public television, Jerry Apps: A Farm Story and A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps. His many awards and honors include the Major Achievement Award of the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the Notable Author Award of the Wisconsin Library Association. He is professor emeritus in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Cuprins

Part I. September, Year Sixteen of the Eagle Era                 
Part II. The Previous May                  
Part III. June              
Part IV. July               
Part V. August                       
Part VI. Back to September               
Part VII. October                   
Part VIII. September, One Year Later                      
Part IX. Five Years Later                  
 
Acknowledgments

Descriere

In an authoritarian future where the Eagle Party has privatized schools and shut down news media, drones buzz overhead and the climate has run amok. As a massive storm sends Lake Michigan surging over Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, wily oldsters lay secret plans to fight the regime's propaganda and show people how to think for themselves.