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Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One—but pockets of plague-ridden squatters remain. While the army has eliminated the most dangerous of the infected, teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out a more innocuous variety—the “malfunctioning” stragglers, who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives.
Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world.
Zone One. A Novel. Colson Whitehead. 3.7 • 501 Ratings. $11.99. $11.99. Publisher Description. NATIONAL BESTSELLER •From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroadand The Nickel Boys: A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living ...
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Zone One follows protagonist Mark Spitz as he struggles to survive in the aftermath of a plague that has turned the vast majority of the population into zombified "skels" and "stragglers. Told over a three-day period–with frequent flashbacks to Mark's life before the plague and in the early days following–the plot follows Mark as he works as a "sweeper" tasked with killing the remaining ...
About Zone One. In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government ...
6 de oct. de 2011 · Attractive, well-dressed writing and some buxom, sexy phrase-turning make this novel’s surface shiny and pretty. However, its hollowness, lack of depth and monotone emotionlessness make the interior a soulless, vacuous fail.It’s prose porn with no emotional money shot, and like traditional porn Zone One dispenses with plot, character and any hint of deeper meaning in favor of excessive ...
