The Last Town On Earth
by:
Thomas Mullen (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781428103078 (1428103074)
Publisher: Recorded Books
Edition language: English
This is the story of a fictional logging/milling town in Washington state that decides to quarantine itself from the influenza epidemic of 1918.Eh. The writing was fine, if a bit tedious, but it just didn't grab me for some reason. A lot of the action happens "off-screen," which lends a detached fee...
A town trying to survive during the 1918 influenza outbreak. Gives insight into how a national epidemic will highlight the true character of people. How it will either unite or break a family or a community. Made me think of what I am capable of doing and to what lengths I would go to in order to sa...
I thought I'd like this one more then I did. It was good, kept me interested, but I didn't really connect with any of the characters and thought they were a bit one dimensional.
This was a very interesting story - set back near the end of World War I and during an epidemic of the Spanish influenza. A lot of the time I was irritated with the characters because of their "backwards" thinking, but then I realized that it was probably how they looked at things at that time - wi...
This story takes place during a grim and volatile period in U.S. history, when many factors could turn neighbor against neighbor. While some were losing their sons in WWI, there was a large anti-war movement and many men refused to enlist. There was also great worker unrest and violence involving ...
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