The Casualties
A Novel
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Publisher Description
In Nick Holdstock's The Casualties, a man recounts the final weeks of his neighborhood before the apocalyptic event that only a few of the eccentric residents will survive.
Samuel Clark likes secrets. He wants to know the hidden stories of the bizarre characters on the little streets of Edinburgh, Scotland. He wants to know about a nymphomaniac, a man who lives under a bridge, a girl with a cracked face. He wants to uncover their histories because he has secrets of his own. He believes, as people do, that he is able to change. He believes, as the whole world does, that there is plenty of time to solve his problems. But Samuel Clark and the rest of the world are wrong. Change and tragedy are going to scream into his and everyone's lives. It will be a great transformation, a radical change; and it just might be worth the cost.
Written by a rising literary star whose work has been published in notoriously selective publications such as n+1 and The Southern Review, The Casualties is an ambitious debut novel that explores how we see ourselves, our past and our possible futures. It asks the biggest question: How can we be saved?
Customer Reviews
SMH
This book was very confusing for me. The author would be writing in first person and the next thing you know, in the same paragraph, he's writing in the third person. Of course, the fact that I kept going in and out of sleep through this did not help this fact either. I know there were a lot of mean characters in this and frankly, I was just bored. I'm seriously glad I'm done with it now.
I hate that I have read two so-so books in a row from the same publisher. However, I would like to thank the publisher and Net Galley for providing me with this free e-galley in exchange for an honest review.