{"product_id":"last-one-book-alexandra-oliva-9781101965085","title":"The Last One","description":"For readers of Station Eleven and The Passage comes a dazzling and unsettling novel of psychological suspense. In Alexandra Oliva s thrilling fiction debut, survival is the name of the game, as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself and one woman s mind and body are pushed to the limit. \u003cbr\u003eShe wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. \u003cbr\u003e It begins with a reality TV show. \u003cbr\u003e Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them a young woman the show s producers call Zoo stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game. \u003cbr\u003e Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life and husband she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all of her survival skills and learn new ones as she goes. \u003cbr\u003e But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways and her ability to parse the charade will either be her triumph or her undoing. \u003cbr\u003e Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated. \u003cbr\u003e Advance praise for The Last One \u003cbr\u003e The Last One seamlessly melds two of our contemporary obsessions the threat of global catastrophe and the staged drama of reality TV into a fiercely imagined tale of the human psyche under stress. This is an uncompromising, thought-provoking debut. Justin Cronin \u003cbr\u003e Haunting, moving, and remarkable . . . Alexandra Oliva s debut novel is clever in its concept and gripping in its delivery. This propulsive book is for everyone who ever thought reality television signaled the end of the world. Karen Joy Fowler","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50189039042833,"sku":"CIN1101965088G","price":6.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50784367345937,"sku":"CIN1101965088VG","price":3.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52965231657233,"sku":"CIN1101965088A","price":6.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":67803796078865,"sku":"GOR015143450","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1101965088.jpg?v=1750919201","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/last-one-book-alexandra-oliva-9781101965085","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}