Wake by Elizabeth Knox
First comes catastrophe. Then comes survival. Atmospheric, gripping, Wake is a chilling tale of horror and survival, by New Zealands preeminent authors: a uniquely compelling story about how people preserve their sanity, their humanity themselves, and each other when threatened by an invisible monster.
Wake is the creepiest book I've ever loved: gorgeous, horrifying and insanely inventiveElizabeth Knox continues to monopolize my awe pedestal. -- Laini Taylor, author of Dreams of Gods and Monsters
Wake lingers as more than an intricate piece of blood-splattered clockwork; it is the work of an author who knows horror is more than gross anatomy. It’s also the ghosts and ruins of our own hearts. * NZ Listener *
Elizabeth Knox has the most original and lateral literary mind in New Zealand . . . I steamed through the book; by the end my hair stood on end. I shouted , "Holy shit!" several times. * Metro *
Irresistible. * NZ Herald *
Elizabeth Knox's gripping adult novels are literary but dynamic, sensuous and inventive. She has a striking ability to evoke a potent sense of time and place. * Independent *
Knox’s writing is sensory and lush and her imaginative intensity rivals the best of Diana Wynne Jones’s stories. * The Australian *
Sly and ingenious. -- Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries, on Elizabeth Knox
Brilliant. -- Emily Perkins, author of The Forrests
One for fans of Stephen King * Red magazine *
Although coming across like a hybrid of two recent Stephen King offerings, Cell and Under The Dome, the novel is a triumph all of its own. Knox writes with a rare psychological acuity about humans under pressure in an intolerable, incomprehensible predicament. * Financial Times *
What starts off as a horror story builds into a taut, psychological sci-fi thriller that is alive to the troubling questions of what happens to humans when civilisation as they know it disintegrates. * Sunday Times Culture *
The story picks up the pace til it becomes a frenzied psycho thriller which Stephen King would be happy to put his name to. * Weekend Sport *
Knox keeps the monster off stage and examines the psychological consequences of its depredations on the survivors, subverting the norms of the horror genre and thus making the ambiguous finale all the more startling. Wake reads like a collaboration between Dean Koontz and John Wyndham, rewritten by Margaret Atwood. * Guardian *
Terrifying dystopia in which survivors of a masscre hide behind a 'No-Go' screen * Sunday Times *
Elizabeth Knox's disquieting novel begins with scenes reminiscent of James Herbert at his best and then becomes a study in the creation and disintegration of a small community . . . [Wake is] more of a psychological horror tale than a gorefest - and it's a story that I suspect will haunt your dreams for some time after reading. * Sci-Fi Bulletin *
Wake lingers as more than an intricate piece of blood-splattered clockwork; it is the work of an author who knows horror is more than gross anatomy. It’s also the ghosts and ruins of our own hearts. * NZ Listener *
Elizabeth Knox has the most original and lateral literary mind in New Zealand . . . I steamed through the book; by the end my hair stood on end. I shouted , "Holy shit!" several times. * Metro *
Irresistible. * NZ Herald *
Elizabeth Knox's gripping adult novels are literary but dynamic, sensuous and inventive. She has a striking ability to evoke a potent sense of time and place. * Independent *
Knox’s writing is sensory and lush and her imaginative intensity rivals the best of Diana Wynne Jones’s stories. * The Australian *
Sly and ingenious. -- Eleanor Catton, author of The Luminaries, on Elizabeth Knox
Brilliant. -- Emily Perkins, author of The Forrests
One for fans of Stephen King * Red magazine *
Although coming across like a hybrid of two recent Stephen King offerings, Cell and Under The Dome, the novel is a triumph all of its own. Knox writes with a rare psychological acuity about humans under pressure in an intolerable, incomprehensible predicament. * Financial Times *
What starts off as a horror story builds into a taut, psychological sci-fi thriller that is alive to the troubling questions of what happens to humans when civilisation as they know it disintegrates. * Sunday Times Culture *
The story picks up the pace til it becomes a frenzied psycho thriller which Stephen King would be happy to put his name to. * Weekend Sport *
Knox keeps the monster off stage and examines the psychological consequences of its depredations on the survivors, subverting the norms of the horror genre and thus making the ambiguous finale all the more startling. Wake reads like a collaboration between Dean Koontz and John Wyndham, rewritten by Margaret Atwood. * Guardian *
Terrifying dystopia in which survivors of a masscre hide behind a 'No-Go' screen * Sunday Times *
Elizabeth Knox's disquieting novel begins with scenes reminiscent of James Herbert at his best and then becomes a study in the creation and disintegration of a small community . . . [Wake is] more of a psychological horror tale than a gorefest - and it's a story that I suspect will haunt your dreams for some time after reading. * Sci-Fi Bulletin *
Elizabeth Knox is one of New Zealand's leading writers. She is the author of ten novels, including The Vintner's Luck (longlisted for the Orange Prize 1999). Elizabeth was made an Arts Foundation Laureate in 2000 and an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. She lives in Wellington with her husband and son.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472117533 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472117530 |
| Title | Wake |
| Author | Elizabeth Knox |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2015-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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