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Black Moon - Kenneth Calhoun
Black Moon
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For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls “Gripping and expertly constructed.”Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.  Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech... show more
For fans of The Age of Miracles and The Dog Stars, Black Moon is a hallucinatory and stunning debut that Charles Yu calls “Gripping and expertly constructed.”Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows.  Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world.  Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness.  Chase and his buddy Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings; Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask, no longer safe with her insomniac parents; Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend.  All around, sleep has become an infinitely precious commodity. Money can’t buy it, no drug can touch it, and there are those who would kill to have it. However, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had. Kenneth Calhoun has written a brilliantly realized and utterly riveting depiction of a world gripped by madness, one that is vivid, strange, and profoundly moving.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780804137140 (0804137145)
Publisher: Hogarth
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
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janetfurnee
janetfurnee rated it
5.0 Black Moon: A Novel
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...
My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it
5.0 Black Moon - the world is suffering from insomnia
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...
makinghismark
makinghismark rated it
3.5 Black Moon Review
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...
LitReactor
LitReactor rated it
5.0 BOOKSHOTS: Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun
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...
dearmfield
dearmfield rated it
3.0 Black Moon: A Novel
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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