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The Fireman de Joe Hill

The Fireman

Autor Joe Hill
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 ian 2017

În acest volum dens și provocator, descoperim o voce narativă care transformă apocalipsa dintr-un spectacol al distrugerii într-o meditație profundă asupra rezilienței umane. Joe Hill nu se mulțumește să descrie sfârșitul lumii; el construiește o mitologie a focului prin 'Dragonscale', un spor care marchează pielea cu modele aurii înainte de a mistui victima. Putem afirma că forța romanului rezidă în contrastul dintre pragmatismul aproape ludic al asistentei Harper Grayson și brutalitatea unei societăți care, de teamă să nu ardă, alege să devină călău.

Structura narativă ne poartă prin ruinele statului New Hampshire, unde teroarea nu vine doar din combustia spontană, ci și din cruzimea 'Cremation Squads'. Cei care au parcurs Survivor Song de Paul Tremblay vor fi pregătiți pentru această atmosferă de izolare și tensiune socială, unde un virus transformă vecinii în străini, însă The Fireman adaugă un strat supranatural unic prin personajul titular, cel care a domesticit flacăra din propriile vene.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție tematică semnificativă față de Heart-Shaped Box sau NOS4A2. Dacă în operele anterioare Joe Hill explora traumele personale și monștrii ascunși în umbră, aici miza devine colectivă, o epopee a supraviețuirii unde speranța este la fel de contagioasă ca boala. Este un thriller supranatural scris cu o eleganță rară în genul post-apocaliptic, în care limba engleză devine un instrument al compasiunii în fața cenușii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062200648
ISBN-10: 006220064X
Pagini: 768
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută mai mult decât un simplu scenariu de dezastru. Este o poveste despre maternitate în condiții extreme și despre modul în care empatia poate supraviețui când lumea din jur se prăbușește. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra genului thriller, unde lupta nu este doar pentru supraviețuire fizică, ci pentru păstrarea umanității într-un univers care arde.

Despre autor

Joe Hill este pseudonimul scriitorului american Joseph Hillstrom King, fiul celebrului Stephen King. De la debutul său cu Heart-Shaped Box, Hill s-a impus ca o voce majoră în literatura horror și thriller contemporană, câștigând numeroase premii și intrând rapid în topurile New York Times. Opera sa, care include titluri precum NOS4A2 și colecția The Black Phone and Other Stories, este recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a îmbina elementele supranaturale cu o analiză psihologică fină a personajelor, transformând spaimele abstracte în realități palpabile și emoționante.

Descriere scurtă

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.
The fireman is coming. Stay cool.
No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.
Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.
Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.
In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.

Recenzii

“Original and gripping, a page-turner.” — George R. R. Martin on THE FIREMAN
“[A] superb supernatural thriller . . . a tremendous, heartrending epic of bravery and love set in a fully realized and terrifying apocalyptic world, where hope lies in the simplest of gestures and the fullest of hearts.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on THE FIRMAN
“Hill has a talent for depicting fascinating characters caught in terrible situations. . . . With a full cast of characters and multiple story lines to keep the reader hooked, Hill’s enthralling fourth thriller hits another home run.” — Library Journal (starred review) on THE FIREMAN
“Joe Hill has always been good, but he’s created something incandescent here, soaring and original. He’s a master storyteller who writes with fire in his veins.” — Lauren Beukes, author of BROKEN MONSTERS on THE FIREMAN
“Fascinating and utterly engaging, this novel is sure to leave readers wanting more. One thing is for certain, however. After reading this book, readers will never hear Christmas carols in quite the same way again.” — Library Journal (starred review) on NOS4A2
“[An] undeniably readable work.” — Booklist (starred review) on NOS4A2
“Read it with the lights on and your children locked in a closet.” — BookRiot.com on NOS4A2
[Hill]’s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun.” — Kirkus on HEART-SHAPED BOX
“[A] wrenching and effective ghost story . . . reads like good, early King mixed with some of the edgier splatterpunk sensibilities of David J. Schow . . . [HEART-SHAPED BOX] has genuinely touching emotional moments as well as action-packed confrontations with the dead.” — Library Journal (starred review) on HEART-SHAPED BOX
“A genuinely scary novel filled with people you care about; the kind of book that still stays in your mind after you’ve turned over the final page. I loved it unreservedly.” — Neil Gaiman, author of THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE on HEART-SHAPED BOX
“[HORNS is] a creepy murder mystery, a tragic love triangle, and a sweetly wistful coming-of-age story. It’s the kind of book that has you laughing on one page, crying on another and making sure the doors and windows are safely locked on a third.” — Miami Herald on HORNS
“[Horns is] devilishly good. . . . Hill is a terrific writer with a great imagination. He has a special talent for taking us and his characters to very weird places.” — USA Today on HORNS

Notă biografică

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Award?winning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), and In the Tall Grass (Netflix).

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From the "New York Times" bestselling and award-winning author, comes a chilling tale of a worldwide pandemic, but no one knows where the virus came from. With many now perishing around her, a pregnant school nurse is determing to survive to see the birth of her child. 'If you haven't yet grabbed a copy of Joe Hill's "The Fireman", you need to...' George R.R. Martin