ISBN: 9780778311270
Editorial: MIRA
Autor: Stine, Alison
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 384
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: "This thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders.” –Publishers Weekly starred reviewFrom the author of Road Out of Winter, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award, comes a resonant, visionary novel about the power of art and the sacrifices we are willing to make for the ones we loveA few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency.In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.Amid the polluted landscape, Coral works desperately to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In her stolen free hours, she does something that seems impossible in this place: Coral makes art.When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. But is it possible to choose a future for herself?Told in shifting perspectives, Trashlands is a beautifully drawn and wildly imaginative tale of a parent's journey, a story of community and humanity in a changed world.“A harrowing tale that is a natural extension of our current climate crisis.... Highly recommended.” –Booklist, starred reviewReviewPraise for TRASHLANDS“One part dystopian drama, one part love story, and one part meditation on a climate future none of us want but may well be hurtling toward anyway, Trashlands is a story unlike anything else...possibly that’s hit shelves this year.” –Culturesse“Absolutely incredible… a real journey.” –Tor.com“Trashlands, the second novel by poet Alison Stine, is a haunted book…. Subtle but powerful… In Stine’s novel, the relationships are what keep the survivors going. Even in times when basic needs necessitate constant work, love and art create lives worth getting up for…. Stine builds a world in which dark times have descended. And yet, she insists, the things that make us human persist. This is her ballad to love in a time of darkness—future and present.” –LA Times“Engrossing… A nicely balanced blend of dystopian tragedy, love, and hope.” –Kirkus“Stine’s writing is clear, unadorned, and honest yet electrifying, much like her characters, and the story is a pleasure to read… Captivating.” —New York Journal of Books“A thought-provoking, harrowing feminist tale that is a natural extension of our current climate crisis.... Highly recommended.” –Booklist, starred review“[A] searing exploration of the lives of women who are mired in grinding poverty in a climate-ravaged near-future where plastic has become humanity’s only currency…. a harrowing vision of the future, and at its center is the tug-of-war between what is right and what is necessary to survive. This painful, thought-provoking apocalypse noir fires on all cylinders.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review"A triumph. Trashlands is that rare piece of cli-fi that reminds us that the apocalypse will not be evenly distributed. Poor people on the edges of the world where the water will rise strive here in Stine's prescient imagination: harvesting plastic, doing sex work, tasting the future that should have been in the last few cans of Coke. This book is as biting and sweet and as dark as that bubbling old-world treat.... It's about time someone sang us the song of trailer parks and strip joints of the post-apocalyptic South, and Stine has the right voice to do it.... Readers who want more like Atwood's The Year of the Flood or Valente's The Future is Blue will be lucky to wash up on Trashland's littered shores." —Meg Elison, Locus and Philip K Dick Award-winning author of The Book of the Unnamed Mi
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