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by Jake Ziemba
| | List Price: | $15.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1326798 | | Studio: | Wordclay | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 268 | | Publication Date: | June 03, 2008 | | Publisher: | Wordclay |
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Product Description
The book which you hold in your hand, like its protagonist, belongs to a rare and terrifying breed. Jake Ziemba's eminently promising first novel, The Yukon Glory, written throughout the author's struggle with rare blood disease PNH, blends raw emotion, intense violence, rich conceptualization, and sensitive characterization to create one of the most brilliant works of phantasmagoria in the past several decades. It is a tale of a man's will destroyed by his bloodlust, against a backdrop of viral holocaust in an alternate 1970's America. Along the way, there are cameo appearances from such historically unsavory individuals as Richard Nixon and Adolf Hitler, as well as vampires, participants in the French Revolution, fiery demon-people, and a whole society turned insectoid in its rage and confusion. Conceptually innovative and stylistically arresting, this book is sure to become renowned. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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A Haunting, Harrowing Vision 
Though The Yukon Glory disguises its harrowing vision of a post-apocalyptic world in a re-imagined 1970s North America, make no mistake--it is a prescient one in our own time. The novel revisits the fuel crisis of the era, proposing a paranormally-inflected, alternative history based on the premise that the continent had run dry within the decade. What follows is the story of one man's struggle to survive in a world ravaged by disease and to reclaim his humanity in a society that has largely forsaken its own. The twist: our protagonist's journey begins on the first day of his new life as a vampire.
Author Jake Ziemba plumbs the depths of his characters, employing their uniquely trying circumstances to explore the limits of the human spirit. Distanced from the politics of our own era, The Yukon Glory is, at its heart, an investigation of what is lost and what is found within the human soul in the most trying of times. The result is haunting, touching and, ultimately, unforgettable.
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