Auction Ends: May 18, 2011 10:00 PM EDT

Books & Magazines

The Reapers Are The Angels (a novel)

Item Number: 523

Estimated Value: 15 USD
Opening Bid: 5 USD

Item Description

By Alden Bell. (paperback)

Zombies. They're the "in thing" right now next to glittering non-vampires. They're what really goes bump in the night, because they don't have the motor function or brain activity to avoid objects. They're hungry for your flesh, and filling up our bookshelves and movie screens. And they're scary.

Alden Bell's (a.k.a. Joshua Gaylord) debut genre novel does for zombie fiction what Cormac McCarthy's The Road did for dystopian fiction, or John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In did for vampires: use the clichés of the form to tell a deeply psychological, literary story. The Reapers Are the Angels follows Temple, a teenager born into a world overrun by a zombie plague. She doesn't remember the "good old days," because they ended years before she came into the world; but she remembers an old man who helped her and a younger brother she had tried to protect. Now she wanders the landscape, avoiding the undead and trying to survive in a world reduced to "survival of the fittest" at its most radical. And she's a product of her time: untrusting, ruthless, methodical, and smart-witted. As Temple wanders from place to place, trying to avoid her demons and understand who she is, she encounters a cast of characters that change everything, from Moses, who wants her dead, to Maury, a mentally handicapped man who doesn't understand the world around him. And her journey will show her that there darker things in the world than zombies...