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Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.
On The Omnivore, based on British press reviews, the book received an "omniscore" of 3.5 out of 5. [7] In Bookmarks July/August 2012 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) with the summary stating, "For Morrison newcomers," observes the Ft. Worth Star Telegram , "it's a fine introduction to ...
No. 7 on The Wall Street Journal bestselling e-book list (December 2017) [75] Quiet was voted No. 1 nonfiction book of 2012 in the "Goodreads Choice Awards". [76] John Dupuis collated information from 69 "Best of 2012" book lists, and wrote for the National Geographic Society's ScienceBlogs that Quiet was the most listed science related book. [77]
It is Powers' twelfth novel. The book is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University, after he encountered giant redwood trees for the first time. [1] The Overstory was a contender for multiple ...
According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "the 277th greatest book of all time". [18] In 2019, the novel ranked 4th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [19] In 2024, the novel ranked 9th on the New York Times list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [20]
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The title is taken from the story of Boabdil, the last Moorish king of Granada, who is also mentioned frequently in the book. The spot from which Boabdil last looked upon Granada after surrendering is known as Puerto del Suspiro del Moro ("Pass of the Moor's Sigh"). The mother of the narrator and an artist friend of the mother's each make a ...
According to Richard Powers, [4] [The] aim in The Echo Maker is to put forward, at the same time, a glimpse of the solid, continuous, stable, perfect story we try to fashion about the world and about ourselves, while at the same time to lift the rug and glimpse the amorphous, improvised, messy, crack-strewn, gaping thing underneath all that narration.