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Sleep Donation - Karen Russell
Sleep Donation
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future. A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an... show more
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Swamplandia!, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, an imaginative and haunting novella about an insomnia epidemic set in the near future. A crisis has swept America. Hundreds of thousands have lost the ability to sleep. Enter the Slumber Corps, an organization that urges healthy dreamers to donate sleep to an insomniac. Under the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers the Corps’ reach has grown, with outposts in every major US city. Trish Edgewater, whose sister Dori was one of the first victims of the lethal insomnia, has spent the past seven years recruiting for the Corps. But Trish’s faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter when she is confronted by “Baby A,” the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious “Donor Y.” Sleep Donation explores a world facing the end of sleep as we know it, where “Night Worlds” offer black market remedies to the desperate and sleep deprived, and where even the act of making a gift is not as simple as it appears.
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Format: BOOK
ISBN: 9781937894283 (1937894282)
ASIN: TnQjAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Atavist Books
Pages no: 110
Edition language: English
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3.0 Sleep Donation (Kindle Single) - Review
It is a special kind of homelessness, says our mayor, to be evicted from your dreams. According to these professional Cassandras, sleep has been chased off the globe by our twenty-four hour news cycle, our polluted skies and crops and waterways, the bald eyeballs of our glowing devices. We America...
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3.0 Sleep Donation
My full Sleep Donation audiobook review can be found at Audiobook Reviewer.This was a very interesting story. No action, no gore, no ethical and moral conflicts, none of the things that normally make me unable to unplug and audiobook were present here. Sleep donation is a story that made me work to ...
janetfurnee
janetfurnee rated it
1.0 Sleep Donation
I am so sorry I bought this book. First, the formatting and editing were terrible. I've read ebooks that had some typos, but this one had duplicate paragraphs throughout. Tops of pages were cut off. Next, it seemed like the author was slinging words around like darts, but never coming close to the b...
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4.0 Karen Russel - Sleep Donation
This short novella about a world in which sleep is rare and people are dying from being awake and not getting the recreational rest of a good night's sleep and dream could have easily been read in one sitting. It is only about one hundred pages long. Fittingly, this came to me when I spent a few day...
carolesrandomlife
carolesrandomlife rated it
4.0 Sleep Donation
This review can also be found at Carole's Random LifeI received an advance reader edition of this book from Atavist Books and Net Galley for the purpose of providing an honest review.4 StarsThis was an enjoyable novella. This novella has an interesting and unique premise. The loved the writing. T...
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