Alison Stine
Autore di Road Out of Winter: an apocalyptic thriller
Sull'Autore
Alison Stine was born in Indiana and grew up in Ohio. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Opere di Alison Stine
The Protectors 7 copie
Trash Lands: A Novel 2 copie
Opere correlate
Literary Cash: Unauthorized Writings Inspired by the Legendary Johnny Cash (Smart Pop series) (2006) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Agente
- Eric Smith (P. S. Literary)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 226
- Popolarità
- #99,470
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 26
The two novels are not related - in the first one the spring never came; in this one the water come and flooded what it could. They both are set in the same area though - the Appalachian are in the USA, one of the poorest places in the country today (and that plays into both novels).
When the waters washed out the East Coast, everyone who could move, went into the interior of the country. The people who could not ended up stuck where they were - and that includes most people who were already trapped in the poverty/opiates net in the Appalachians. When the ban on plastics was enabled, people started recycling a lot more and by the time we catch up with the story, most of the plastic had been recycled over and over and the particles left are everywhere. And deep into the Appalachian region, people survive by scavenging the plastic that is still recyclable. Of course, people being people, someone managed to find a way to become more important than everyone else so the Trashlands is born - a dance/strip club in the middle of a big area of trash.
The novel actually did not start badly - the introduction of Coral and her family, the slow reveal of how the world looks like now, the stolen child - it all had a potential. Then a journalist from the big city showed up and things started going downhill, all the way to the end which managed to get all the correct people at the correct place at the correct time - almost fairy tale style.
Still, the novel has interesting moments and ideas and I suspect that at least part of the idea was to show that love conquers all but it felt almost like a checklist being implemented - things were just stringed together (especially late in the novel) without building the connections needed for them to make sense. A knight on a white horse (sans horse) and a maiden in distress to fall for him (well, not a maiden) are really too cliche to work without some heavy lifting from the author - and that novel simply lacked that.
I still plan to check the next novel Stine writes but I hope she finds again that special thing which made the first novel so much better than this one.… (altro)