by Thomas Mullen
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 ...
The Last Town on Earth is a very well paced, vividly detailed, and all too believable novel of a Washington lumber town that shuts its borders during the influenza outbreak of 1918. The elements of isolationism, national labor politics, and federalized townsmen acting as draft marshals come together...
The story takes place at the end of the first World War when the Spanish Flu is in full force. The small, fictional mill town of Commonwealth, WA decides to quarantine itself to keep the flu out. Then a soldier shows up at the gates.I thought it was mostly well written, especially for a first novel....
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