The End of the World Running Club - Couverture souple

Walker, Adrian J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503142795 ISBN 13 : 9781503142794

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"A real find" (Stephen King)

"Extraordinary" (Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club)

"Ridiculously gripping straight from the start" (Jenny Colgan)

"Will thrill and delight ... a terrifically well-observed, haunting and occasionally harrowing read" (Starburst)

"This is an uplifting, exciting and often humorous yarn about camaraderie, endurance and redemption. Throughout, Walker nicely evokes the agony and exhilaration of distance running." (The Times)

"... what sets this novel apart is Walker's extraordinary emotional articulacy" (The Sun)

"A page-turning thriller with a pace as relentless as the characters' feet hitting the pavement. A deft look into the mind of a man who needs the near-destruction of the world to show him what truly matters" (Laura Lam author of False Hearts)

"Brilliant ... superb to the end" (Lucy Mangan)

"A really fun, engaging, exciting, and compassionate take on a familiar scenario: the apocalypse ... Highly recommended" (David Owen Carnegie longlisted author of Panther)

"Compulsively readable" (SFX)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Edgar Hill is 35 and caught in his own headlock. Overweight slob, under-performing husband and reluctant father – for Ed, the world may as well have already ended. So when it does end in a catastrophic asteroid strike and Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks, it comes as something of a relief. His world becomes simpler, life becomes easier, things might just be looking up. But nothing's ever that simple. Returning from a salvage run in the city, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force. Suddenly he finds himself facing a gruelling journey on foot across a devastated United Kingdom. Accompanied by a group of misfits that include a large, hairy tattoo artist and an old man who claims to have run around Australia, Edgar must race against time and overcome his own short-comings, not to mention 100 mile canyons and a very strange council estate, to find the people he loves before he loses them forever. A vivid, gripping story of hope, long-distance running and how we break the limits of our own endurance.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1503142795
• ISBN 13: 9781503142794
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 421