Last Last Chance

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A TIME OUT JVEW YORK BEST BOOK of the YEAR
NAMED ONE of the 5 BEST WRITERS UNDER 35 by the NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION
A LETHAL STRAIN OF VIRUS VANISHES FROM A LAB IN WASHINGTON, D.C., unleasliing an epidemic—and tiie world thinks Lucy Clark's father is to blame. But considering die eccentric company Lucy keeps, the "superplague" may be the least of her problems. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end hatwear who's also a crackliead; her twelve-year-old half sister, Hannah, obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism; and Lucy's lover, Stanley, who's hell-bent on finding a womb for his dead wife's frozen eggs. Finally, there's Lucy herself, who tries to surmount her drug addiction and keep her family intact in this brilliant novel about survival and recovery, opportunity and apocalypse, and, finally, love and faith in an age of anxiety.
"Moving, buoyant, and utterly X.mt Last Last Chance isn't your average novel, thanks in no small part to Maazel's ftinny,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A TIME OUT JVEW YORK BEST BOOK of the YEAR
NAMED ONE of the 5 BEST WRITERS UNDER 35 by the NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION
A LETHAL STRAIN OF VIRUS VANISHES FROM A LAB IN WASHINGTON, D.C., unleasliing an epidemic—and tiie world thinks Lucy Clark's father is to blame. But considering die eccentric company Lucy keeps, the "superplague" may be the least of her problems. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end hatwear who's also a crackliead; her twelve-year-old half sister, Hannah, obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism; and Lucy's lover, Stanley, who's hell-bent on finding a womb for his dead wife's frozen eggs. Finally, there's Lucy herself, who tries to surmount her drug addiction and keep her family intact in this brilliant novel about survival and recovery, opportunity and apocalypse, and, finally, love and faith in an age of anxiety.
"Moving, buoyant, and utterly X.mt Last Last Chance isn't your average novel, thanks in no small part to Maazel's ftinny, lacerating prose Maazel is such a fine, precise writer, she can convince the reader of almost anything."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Maazel writes with a kind of ecstatic swagger—freewheeling and cocksure, intelligent and loopy and funny as hell." —Slate.com
"Lithe prose, crackling wit, and a deep appreciation for the absurdity, spiritual poverty, and occasional nobility of Americans in a time of extreme crisis."
—Time Out New York
"Read this book now for the sentence-by-senterice brilliance of Maazel's inimitable voice Maazel was born in 1975, but her imagination has been on fire for a thousand years." —Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End
author interview and discussion questions included inside
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