Zone One
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings34
Average rating3.3
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. • "One of the best books of the year." —Esquire
After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong…
At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory.
Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto!
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couldn' t finish it there was no excitement. Reminded me of the walking dead tv show,which i stopped watching.
A literary zombie novel. Yes, you read me right. I'm 100 pages from being done. And this is about as far as I'm going to go with it. It wasn't... bad, per se. It had some really interesting ideas and interesting world building but the convoluted language and unnecessary jumping around in timeline meant I slogged through most of it.
There is one line, though, that made the book almost worth getting through. I laughed so hard.
“They wore ponchos, and what else but a being cursed with the burden of free will would wear a poncho.”
There. Now you don't have to read Zone One unless you really, really want to.
