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Adrian Barnes - Nod (A Novel) (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Dawn breaks and no one in the world has slept the night before. Or almost no one.
A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand, can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same mysterious dream. A handful of silent children can still sleep as well, but what they’re dreaming remains a mystery.
Global panic ensues.
A medical fact: after six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis sets in. After four weeks, the body dies.
In the interim, a bizarre new world arises and swallows the old one whole.
A world called Nod.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Fiction - Science Fiction
- Published : 2015 (Titan Books)
- ISBN : 9781783298228
- SKU : B002834
- PPC : LL300gm
- RRP : £8.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
"An outstanding read." - The Book Bag.
"Nod works brilliantly on several levels; as a nerve-shredding horror, a timely cautionary tale, and a study of a man’s life being stripped away." - Sci-Fi Now.
“Thrilling in its intensity and yet fatalistically grim.” - Flickering Myth.
"Nod is a book for dreamers who have become scared to dream, making it a delightful bit of horror." - Starburst.
“Nod” is a profoundly creepy, often disturbing book, mixing Lovecraftian pessimism for humanity’s lost ability to understand itself or the roots of its own reality, with a yearning need for an impossible transcendence.” - Horrorview.
"Adrian Barnes has successfully delivered a very simple dystopian story here; a nation in the throes of panic, frenzy, poverty, collapse and psychosis. But underneath lies a much richer, and cleverer, narrative where Paul, a self-confessed misanthrope, becomes a reluctant messianic saint, willing to sacrifice his own life to save others. Barnes’ ability to craft beautiful similes that immerse you in this crazy world is hypnotic, and the manipulation of words, turning them into nouns for characters, is akin to the adroit hands of Antony Burgess. The writing is sublime in places, funny in its social observations, and yet strong enough to stand up to many other literary books that frowned upon this type of genre." - Goodreads Review.
"The apocalypse comes in many forms, but none stranger than that of the chronic sleep deprivation that leads to mass psychosis in Adrian Barnes's audacious novel Nod. Paul is a misanthropic hack writing a non-fiction book about obscure words when the world is afflicted and the majority of citizens begin to hallucinate solipsistic realities that Paul, as a Sleeper and a wordsmith, can influence. Barnes employs this brilliant idea to explore the nature of perception, redemption, and personal and social catastrophe. Outstanding." - The Guardian.
The Author
Adrian Barnes was born in Blackpool, England but moved to Canada in 1969. He taught English at Selkirk College, British Columbia. He was married with two children. He received an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and Nod was his first published novel.