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Lights Out in Lincolnwood di Geoff Rodkey
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Lights Out in Lincolnwood (edizione 2021)

di Geoff Rodkey (Autore)

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A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.

It's Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with satisfying his imperious TV producer boss's creative demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, silently plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom Jen, who gave up a successful business career to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until the others vacate the kitchen and she can pour her first vodka of the day.

Then, as the kids begin their school day and Dan rides a commuter train into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Lights, phones, laptops, cars, trains...the entire technological infrastructure of 21st-century society quits working. Normal life, as the Altmans and everyone else knew it, is over.

Or is it?

Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.

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Titolo:Lights Out in Lincolnwood
Autori:Geoff Rodkey (Autore)
Info:Harper Perennial (2021), 544 pages
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Etichette:fiction, hoopla audio, new jersey, post-apocalyptic

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Wow what odd book.
Over 500 pages for a book that barely covers 4 days, and yet it is one of the quickest books I have ever sped through, sadly the author seemed to have struggled with how to end it.
The irony is he started writing it in 2019 before the pandemic.
On a random October day the power and anything with a computer chip or lithium battery stops working.
Cars stop, planes crash, and the Altman family and all of their problems and deep demons will rise to the surface, and well the reader, will laugh a lot.
The behavior of nearly everyone is exactly as we now know people will behave.
There are definitely many moments that are truly funny in this book. ( )
  zmagic69 | Mar 31, 2023 |
One day in a New York suburb, the power goes out and everything that uses electricity dies. No one knows what, exactly, happened, but the going theory is an EMP. We watch one family and their neighbors as they try to survive and decide what to do. Thanks, I hate it. I don't even know why I read this as it is *clearly* wildly outside my comfort zone (that might have been why, actually--pushing the horizons or whatever), but this just made me anxious and grumpy. I think it was supposed to be social commentary, and as that, for me, it also just fell really flat. You have to recognize the people for a social commentary to work and I just... didn't here. I just... don't think people are actually this awful? *shrug* And we never find out what really happened which I guess is kind of in keeping with what I think the book was doing, but it further grumped me. Obviously, YMMV as this was just not *for* me. ( )
  lycomayflower | Sep 8, 2021 |
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:

A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family who have to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.

It's Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with satisfying his imperious TV producer boss's creative demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, silently plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom Jen, who gave up a successful business career to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until the others vacate the kitchen and she can pour her first vodka of the day.

Then, as the kids begin their school day and Dan rides a commuter train into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Lights, phones, laptops, cars, trains...the entire technological infrastructure of 21st-century society quits working. Normal life, as the Altmans and everyone else knew it, is over.

Or is it?

Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.

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