Gold Fame Citrus
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- Titel: Gold Fame Citrus : A Novel / Claire Vaye Watkins
- Person(en): Watkins, Claire Vaye
- Sprache: Englisch
- Originalsprache: Englisch
- Umfang: 1 online resource
- Erschienen: 2015
- ISBN/Preis: 9780698195943 (electronic bk)
- Schlagwörter: Fiction ; Fantasy ; Literature ; Electronic books
- Link(s): http://elibraryhh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4174200F-B18D-4C2C-A46F-C422310C77E6 Excerpt
Inhalt: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Refinery 29, Ploughshares, Powells, BookPage and Kirkus Reviews The much-anticipated first novel from a Story Prize-winning "5 Under 35" fiction writer. In 2012, Claire Vaye Watkins's story collection, Battleborn, swept nearly every award for short fiction. Now this young writer, widely heralded as a once-in-a-generation talent, returns with a first novel that harnesses the sweeping vision and deep heart that made her debut so arresting to a love story set in a devastatingly imagined near future: Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. With the Central Valley barren, underground aquifer drained, and Sierra snowpack entirely depleted, most "Mojavs," prevented by both armed vigilantes and an indifferent bureaucracy from freely crossing borders to lusher regions, have allowed themselves to be evacuated to...
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