Black Moon: A Novel
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00F1W0R3C
Publish date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: Hogarth
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Why 5 stars? Sleep, or lack of sleep, is a universal topic that everybody can relate to. This novel explores sleep, dreams, society and relationships so well that I was driven to finish it well into the night. It was also down-right spooky. The premise is sound, the writing is smooth, and the editi...
Insomnia, it’s seems we all suffer from it sometime in our life or we know someone who has. It’s that’s chronic inability to fall asleep, it’s persistent and it can also drive a person crazy. In Black Moon, the world is gripped by insomnia; it is the end of sleep. Humans are dying in a “fit of ha...
This story left me unsettled and I like that in a book. Scenes from this tale still haunt my waking hours as well as my dreams. The vision of a society without sleep, hallucinating and confused, and having it in for those who can still sleep, is nightmarish and even apocalyptic. At times the story s...
Title: Black Moon Who wrote it? Kenneth Calhoun, a graphics design professor with stories published in The Paris Review, Tin House, and the 2011 Pen/O.Henry Prize Collection. Black Moon is his first novel. More info at his website. Plot in a Box: A handful of southern California residen...
I'm a sucker for insomnia stories in my early 20's I was a person of little sleep and sometimes relate to these characters in such stories.In "Black Moon" insomniacs become the living with very few people who can sleep and dream. Biggs being one of those people who walks the hallucinating town in se...
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