Description: PRAISE FOR ZONE ONE : " THE BEST BOOK OF THE FALL...provides the chilling, fleshy pleasures of zombies who lurch, pursue, hunger...while brilliantly reformulating an old-hat genre." -- Esquire " [Whitehead] takes the genre of horror fiction, mines both its sense of humor and self-seriousness, and emerges with a brilliant allegory of New York living." -- New York Observer "A zombie story with brains...Readers who wouldn''t ordinarily creep into a novel festooned with putrid flesh might be lured by this certifiably hip writer who can spine gore into macabre poetry...Everything comes to life in this perfectly paced, horrific, 40-page finale shot through with grim comedy and desolate wisdom about the modern age in all its poisonous, contaminating rage. It''s a remarkable episode, but elevated by the power of Whitehead''s prose to the level of those other ash-covered nightmares imagined by T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cormac MacCarthy. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Highbrow novelist Colson Whitehead plunges into the unstoppable zombie genre in this subtle meditation on loss and love in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, which has become the city that never dies." --USA Today "For-real literary -- gory, lyrical, human, precise." --GQ "A satirist so playful that you often don''t even feel his scalpel, Whitehead toys with the shards of contemporary culture with an infectious glee. Here he upends the tropes of the zombie story in the canyons of lower Manhattan. Horror has rarely been so unsettling, and never so grimly funny." --The Daily Beast "Whitehead''s uncommonly assured style and his observational gifts make the book a pleasure to read." --Newsweek "Whitehead writes with economy, texture and punch. He has a talent for sardonic aphorism and an ear for phonetic intrigue...[ Zone One ] is a cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludic violence, strangely tender novel, a celebration of modernity and a pre-emptive wake for its demise." --Glen Duncan, for The New York Times Book Review "Colson Whitehead''s ZONE ONE isn''t your typical zombie novel; it trades fright-night fodder for empathy and chilling realism...yielding a haunting portrait of a lonely, desolate, and uncertain city." --Elle "The kind of smart, funny, pop culture-filled tale that would make George Romero proud[Whitehead] succeeds brilliantly with a fresh take on survival, grief, 9/11, AIDS, global warming, nuclear holocaust, Katrina, Abu Ghraib, Pol Pot's Year Zero, Missouri tornadoes, and the many other disasters both natural and not that keep a stranglehold on our fears." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "This diabolically smart, covertly sensitive, ruminative, and witty zombie nightmare prods us to think about how we dehumanize others, how society tramples and consumes individuals, how flimsy our notions of law and order are, and how easily deluded and profoundly vulnerable humankind is. A deft, wily, and unnerving blend of pulse-elevating action and sniper-precise satire." -- Booklist , starred review "[Whitehead] sinks his teeth into a popular format and emerges with a literary feast, producing his most compulsively readable work to date...Whitehead transforms the zombie novel into an allegory of contemporary Manhattan (and, by extension, America)." -- Kirkus , starred review "[Zone One] achieves a kind of miracle of tone. A fragile hope permeates these pages, one so painful and tender, it''s heartbreaking...Colson Whitehead is in fresh, appealing and often very fine voice." --The Guardian "The stylistic exuberance on display would be overwhelming if it weren''t so well controlled, shifting weightlessly from M*A*S*H-style battle narrative to a melancholic Blade Runner-like vision of Urban devastation...The smallest of details is marked by originality of language." --The New Statesman " Zone One is not the work of a serious novelist slumming it with some genre-novel cash-in, but rather a lovely piece of writing...Whitehead picks at our nervousness about order''s thin grip, suggesting just how flimsy the societal walls are that make possible our hopes and dreams and overly complicated coffee orders. Pretty scary." --Entertainment Weekly "Colson Whitehead is quickly becoming one of the country's most exciting young writers." --Rachel Syme for Monkey See, NPR.org PRAISE FOR COLSON WHITEHEAD: "[Whitehead's] writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world." John Updike, The New Yorker "Colson Whitehead[is] a large and vibrant talentThis is the voice of a writer who is watching America carefully." The New York Observer "Whitehead is making a strong case for a new name of his own: that of the best of the new generation of American novelists." - Boston Globe "No novelist writing today is more engaging and entertaining when it comes to questions of race, class, and commercial culture than Colson Whitehead." - USA Today "Whitehead has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit.You can't help but admire Whitehead's writerly gifts." The Los Angeles Times "Whitehead can write sentences like nobody's business." Bloomberg "Whitehead's engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb." - The Miami Herald "[Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument." - The Nation "Whitehead [is] one of the city's and country's finest young writers." Chicago Tribune "Ebullient, supremely confident." San Diego Union Tribune "A scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken." - The Village Voice

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