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by Karen Thompson Walker

ISBN: 030797071X
ISBN13: 978-0307970718
Language: English
Publisher: Books on Tape (June 26, 2012)
Category: Genre Fiction
Subategory: Literature

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In The Age of Miracles, the earth’s rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight

Karen Thompson Walker’s debut novel is a stunner from the first page-an end-of-the-world, coming-of-age tale of quiet majesty. I loved this novel and can’t wait to see what this remarkable writer will do next. Justin Cronin, author of The Passage. In The Age of Miracles, the earth’s rotation slows, gravity alters, days are stretched out to fifty hours of sunlight. In the midst of this, a young girl falls in loves, sees things she shouldn't and suffers heartbreak of the most ordinary kind.

The Age of Miracles is the debut novel of American writer Karen Thompson Walker. It was published in June 2012 by Random House in the United States and Simon & Schuster in the United Kingdom. The book chronicles the fictional phenomenon of 'slowing', in which one Earth day takes longer to complete.

I had begun spending my lunches in the library, land of the friendless, where Trevor Watkins sat hunched at a computer, powering a spaceship with the fuel of correctly answered algebra problems, and Diane Kofsky read romance novels, sneaking cheese puffs from her backpack. There was no eating in the library, and no talking, either. The only good excuse for choosing to be in the library at lunch was if you had to do homework for the next period. But my homework was done.

by Karen Thompson Walker First published June 21st 2012. Showing 1-30 of 92. The Age of Miracles (Paperback). Published June 26th 2012 by Random House. Paperback, 294 pages.

Karen Thompson Walker. This is an uncorrected eBook file. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, In. New York.

Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the . Karen Thompson Walker. The free online library containing 500000+ books. Read books for free from anywhere and from any device.

Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. A strange illness induces sleep and heightens dreams in an isolated college town, transforming the lives of ordinary people, in this mesmerizing novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.

There is a similar scene in The Age of Miracles, a US debut which sparked a bidding war among publishers: the . Thompson Walker's writing is flat, efficient, careful.

There is a similar scene in The Age of Miracles, a US debut which sparked a bidding war among publishers: the 11-year-old narrator, Julia, enjoys a celebratory meal of pasta and tinned pineapple, later reflecting with adult hindsight that it was the last time in her life she ate pineapple. It reveals all the hallmarks and acquired craft skills of the creative writing course: a persistent blandness, an incorruptible awareness of political correctness, but also a kind of defensive knowingness.

This story is referred to in Karen Thompson Walker’s much anticipated first novel, The Age of Miracles, which reads as if it had been inspired by Bradbury’s classic tale and sprinkled with some extra Twilight Zone magic dust. The premise of Ms. Walker’s novel is this: The rotation of the Earth has begun to slow, and days and nights are growing longer and longer.

Title: The Age of Miracles. Author: Karen Thompson Walker. Genre: Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction. Publisher: Random House (US), Simon & Schuster (UK) Publication Date: June 2012 (US & UK) Hardcover: 288 Pages (US)

Title: The Age of Miracles. Publisher: Random House (US), Simon & Schuster (UK) Publication Date: June 2012 (US & UK) Hardcover: 288 Pages (US). With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?

Karen Thompson Walker. With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world. It still amazes me how little we really knew. How do I upload a book?

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and unforgettable debut novel about coming of age set against the backdrop of an utterly altered world.";It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.";On a seemingly ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia and her family awake to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday l

Comments:

Worla

What an interesting way to write a story a story from the perspective of an eleven year old! She is just beginning to discover boys, get her first bra. She is not the popular kid in school but ends up developing an innocent relationship with a boy her age. Something has happened that no one can explain. Earth is slowing down in doing its spin that it finally takes 72 hours for the earth to do this. This causes major problems for growing crops and people start to develop radiation sickness. On top of that there is a syndrome many develop because of the slowing of the earths rotation. The animals die, the crops die. Mushrooms don't need as much light. People have their own greenhouses to grow some crops. Her grandfather bought gold bricks, "Because they are the safest investment in the future." Very thought provoking book!

Fordregelv

First, let me say that this is a beautifully written book; the prose is discriptive and conveys the slow sense of building doom. But lovely prose isn't all that a book needs to make it compelling, and, even with a unique concept to build on, the story was really a slow starter. Stick with it, though, and the momentum does increase and the characters become people to care about. The ending was perfect IMHO. Overall, an excellent book that requires some patience to appreciate its power.

Gavikelv

I give a LOT of credit to author Karen Thompson Walker's imagination. Part sci-fi, part coming-of-age tale, "The Age of Miracles" is based on the (impossible) fact that the Earth's rotation is slowing. On the first day this happens, it slows by 56 minutes. By the end of the book...well, I won't spoil it.

With that premise and the bizarre effects caused by such a thing--all plant life dying, super radiation from the sun, a shifting magnetic shield--the main story is about 11-year-old Julia who is at that most awkward and painful of ages: sixth grade. This is the story of Julia making friends, losing friends and falling in love as only a middle schooler can.

It is the age of miracles--when the boy does notice you, when you figure out who you really are and you learn what friendship really means. But this is no ordinary coming of age for Julia, since she is living in a time when life as we know it on Earth is irreparably changing in ways no one ever anticipated.

The writing is excellent, but even more important is that Walker made me suspend all rational, scientific thought to believe the impossible could happen--at least in this terrific story.

Vut

This is a strange and sad little book. While the writing is beautiful, the author undeniably talented, and the voice of this novel very relatable, that wasn’t enough for me to really enjoy this story. For the story of a world hurtling towards doomsday, there was an odd lack of tension—it kind of felt as though death and decay were so inevitable, it was pointless to believe otherwise, and so when people died or drifted away from the main character, I didn’t feel upset, only resigned. This story lacked any low lows or high highs—it was way too even-keeled. I need more stakes, more people to care about, more to sink my teeth into, to really enjoy a book.

Yahm

4.5 stars, actually.

This book is a slow burn. Even though its about Catastrophes (both global and personal) and the surviving of them, don't look for any last minute heroics or scientific breakthroughs-- this is all about the ways we survive on a day to day basis, slowly adjusting to the terrible things around us.

Julia lives in Southern California, so she's no stranger to the ways the Earth can shake things up. But even Julia and her family aren't ready for the gradual slowing of the rotation of the Earth, and the lengthening days and nights, off-balance magnetic fields, and dying birds.

The world's governments deal with this catastrophe piecemeal, reacting with "clock time" when the days lengthen too far, giving up on the astronauts trapped in the space station, and turning off all nonessential power so that dwindling energy can be used for UV lamps to grow food.

Meanwhile, Julia is dealing with personal catastrophes of her own in the same, slow-reacting way. She's lost her best friend to Mormon retreat, her grandfather's disappeared, and her parents are falling away from each other. And there's this boy, Seth, she keeps blurting out awkward things to.

For me, the slow death of society as we know it was tied up with the emotional and social awkwardness of Julila's personality. All the catastrophes play out in a slow, sad, downward spiral. It's the small details of Julia's mother buying emergency peanut butter, and 'real timers' abandoning society for supposed Utopias in the desert, and the social perils of waiting for the school bus in the dark that layer together a delicious, slice-of-near future-dystopia life for the reader to enjoy.

It doesn't quite make the 5th star for me because the pace slowed down just a bit too much for me sometimes, and I felt like the promise of several characters (and their ultimate fates) were never quite fully fulfilled or explained.

Still, my 6th grader said she enjoyed the book as well. (Romancey bits are quite tame). For a literary-flavored near future meditation on weathering emotional and global catastrophes, this is your book.