Zone One

· Random House
4.1
8 reviews
Ebook
272
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From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street – aka ‘Zone One’ and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected ‘stragglers’.

Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world.

But then things start to go terribly wrong...

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4.1
8 reviews
Danny Hopwood
April 15, 2014
This would have been good but I went into it wanting a good zombie novel. It was good but its not about against the odds zombie survival. Its a smart and illuminating take on what to do after.
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February 16, 2012
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About the author

Colson Whitehead is the author of four previous novels, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt and Sag Harbor, as well as The Colossus of New York, a collection of essays. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has frequently hit the American bestseller lists. He lives in New York.

Web: www.colsonwhitehead.com
Twitter: @colsonwhitehead

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