Shadowbahn

When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return To the hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands drawn to the American Stonehenge including Parker and Zema, siblings on their way from L.A to visit their mother in Michigan the Towers seem to sing, even as everybody hears a different song A rumor overtakes the throng that someone can be seen in the high windows of the southern structure On the ninety third floor, Jesse Presley the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived suddenly awakes, driven mad over the hours and days to come by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn t, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother s place Meanwhile, Parker and Zema cross a possessed landscape by a mysterious detour no one knows, charted on a map that no one has seen Haunting, audacious, and undaunted, Shadowbahn is a winding and reckless ride through intersections of danger, destiny, and the conjoined halves of a ruptured nation. Best Download [ Shadowbahn ] Author [ Steve Erickson ] – kino-fada.fr the music became inextricable from the paroxysms of his country Did his country lead him to the music or did the music lead him to his country i was so excited a few months back to hear that steve erickson had a new book coming out, and so titillated by jonathan lethem s saying of it, in granta wayyy back in december 2015 It s my best of the year, but you can t read it yetI ve read every novel he s ever written and I ll still never know how he does it Erickson s not so much a writer s wrthe music became inextricable from the paroxysms of his country Did his country lead him to the music or did the music lead him to his country i was so excited a few months back to hear that steve erickson had a new book coming out, and so titillated by jonathan lethem s saying of it, in granta wayyy back in december 2015 It s my best of the year, but you can t read it yetI ve read every novel he s ever written and I ll still never know how he does it Erickson s not so much a writer s writer as a tour de forcer s tour de forcer.BEST OF THE YEAR, and he was saying thatthan a year before its publication date it s hard not to be intrigued by that.and i gotta say despite this being a great year for books already, this one is definitely at the top of my list, too of course, since it s pubbing in 2017, who knows where it will end up, but i m telling you this is some fantastic erickson here.this is my fifth book b...See Toldja that whole Beatles Man or Elvis Man dichotomy was bullshit I am in both camps, which means that Steve Erickson believes I am one of many molecules holding together the fabric of the Western cultural cosmos I found an LP copy of Big Science for a dollar or two not too long ago Laurie Anderson s cred being unfortunately listed on the sticker as Lou Reed s wife which, grrrr, but it was still a helluva lucky find , so I will be certain to play O Superman at top volume any time the See Toldja that whole Beatles Man or Elvis Man dichotomy was bullshit I am in both camps, which means that Steve Erickson believes I am one of many molecules holding together the fabric of the ...Premise the Twin Towers mysteriously appear on the Badlands of South Dakota, from them comes a stream of music, and everyone hears a different song Isn t that a cool idea I thought so when I requested a review copy I imagined something of the order of a Tim Powers novel, with flights of wacky imagination resolving into a story that moves me, with characters I care about Alas, it turned out that I was exactly the wrong reader for this book Reviews, even not my cup of tea style, can help r Premise the Twin Towers mysteriously appear on the Badlands of South Dakota, from them comes a stream of music, and everyone hears a different song Isn t that a cool idea I thought so when I requested a review copy I imagined something of the order of a Tim Powers novel, with flights of wacky imagination resolving into a story that moves me, with characters I care about Alas, it turned out that I was exactly the wrong reader for this book Reviews, even not my cup of tea style, can help readers pick books they will love, so I offer the following At first, the story drew me in but midway through I grew frustrated The music, as it were the uniting theme of all the various characters and adventures, turned out to be exactly the kind I have almost no knowle...I am not even going to pretend the premise isn t crazy Twenty years after they fell, the Twin Towers reappear in South Dakota They are as they were before 9 11 except they seem to be singing and they are also completely devoid of people, save one Jesse Garon Presley, the twin brother of Elvis who, in our reality, died at birth I KNOW, RIGHT It s bonkers Butthan just a bananapants premise, it s a gorgeous novel of loss and alternate history deeply tied into American culture I was I am not even going to pretend the premise isn t crazy Twenty years after they fell, the Twin Towers reappear in South Dakota They are as they were before 9 11 except they seem to be singing and they are also completely devoid of people, save one Jesse Garon P...Steve Erickson s Shadowbahn is deliciously out there You won t read anything else like it this year From its startling premise to its beautiful writing, it s a truly engaging read It s thought provoking and strange and a wild ride I thought it was great Shadowbahn is set in 2021 Twenty years after 9 11, the Twin Towers have reappeared in the Badlands of South Dakota People from around the world begin flocking to see this impossible phenomenon The Towers are emitting music, and everyone he Steve Erickson s Shadowbahn is deliciously out there You won t read anything else like it this year From its startling premise to its beautiful writing, it s a truly engaging read It s thought provoking and strange and a wild ride I thought it was great Shadowbahn is set in 2021 Twenty years after 9 11, the Twin Towers have reappeared in the Badlands of South Dakota People from around the world begin flocking to see this impossible phenomenon The Towers are emitting music, and everyone hears a different song Brother and sister, Parker and Zema, are on their way from Los Ang...There s music coming out of me that s not mine There s singing in my head that s not me This was my first exposure to Steve Erickson, astonishing given that the author has nine previous novels and has won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award I m not so enad of his method that I ll immediately hunt down the other nine novels, but Shadowbahn represents such an odd representation of 21st century America, I ll be trying to figure out what his visions mean for There s music coming out of me that s not mine There s singing in my head that s not me This was my first exposure to Steve Erickson, astonishing given that the author has nine previous novels and has won both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award I m not so enad of his method that I ll immediately hunt down the other nine novels, but Shadowbahn represents such an odd representation of 21st century America, I ll be trying to figure out what his visions mean for a lon...So what to make of Steve Erickson s Shadowbahn It s already been described as the first post Trump novel, which is a tad ironic given the President not named in Erickson s near future the book is set in 2021 is female and it s under this female President look, we know it s Hillary that America fractures into a disunion Not even Erickson, for all the weirdness that occurs in Shadowbahn, could imagine a Trump Presidency That said, he has no difficulty describing a broken America.And t So what to make of Steve Erickson s Shadowbahn It s already been described as the first post Trump novel, which is a tad ironic given the President not named in Erickson s near future the book is set in 2021 is female and it s under...Boy, I didn t like this book The firsthalf, I d say it was a strong 3 stars towers, mystery, bro sis driving toward it, their story was really compelling Then at approximately the halfway point, the bookdevolved It became of series of semi cohesive ideas and mad ramblings about music that came across like your local record seller on a meth high laying out ultimate mix without using names of artists or songs Then it wrapped up Frankly, a book only about brother and sister woulda been Boy, I didn t like this book The firsthalf, I d say it was a strong 3 stars towers, mystery, bro sis driving toward it, their story was really compelling Then at appr...The premise of Shadowbahn is a strange one 20 years after 9 11 the Twin Towers appear in the badlands of South Dakota It s not a mirage, but the physical buildings, bereft of people and completely undamaged The novel offers no direct explanation of how or why this occurred but rather its effect on time and on other people One of those is Jesse Garon Presley, Elvis s twin brother and whom, in our world, died at birth Two others are Parker and his adopted black sister Zema who, in a reversal The premise of Shadowbahn is a strange one 20 years after 9 11 the Twin Towers appear in the badlands of South Dakota It s not a mirage, but the physical buildings, bereft of people and completely undamaged The novel offers no direct explanation of how or why this occurred but rather its effect on time and on other people One of those is Jesse Garon Presley, Elvis s twin brother and whom, in our world, died at birth Two others are Parker and his adopted black sister Zema who, in a reversal of the Great Migration of the 1930s, are driving from a ruined California to their mother s house in Michigan At its core Shadowbahn grapples with the fate of America, whether it has reneged on its astonishing promise and turned its back on the future The appearance of the Twin Towers signals some sort of reckoning with past and future The time is the near future America s unity seems gone, the Midwest filled with forces of Disunion A s...I picked this book up for a songI picked up Shadowbahn once, shortly after its publication, then put it down again The brief synopsis on its jacket put me off Manhattan s Twin Towers, destroyed on September 11, 2001, inexplicably reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota some twenty years later Too soon, too soon I did not want to be reminded yet again of just how badly and how often we ve stumbled since those planes were flown into those buildings.But that was before I had read Steve Er I picked this book up for a songI picked up Shadowbahn once, shortly after its publication, then put it down again The brief synopsis on its jacket put me off Manhattan s Twin Towers, destroyed on September 11, 2001, inexplicably reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota some twenty years later Too soon, too soon I did not want to be reminded yet again of just how badly and how often we ve stumbled since those planes were flown into those buildings.But that was before I ...

• English
• 02 November 2018
Steve Erickson
• Hardcover
• 300 pages
• 0735212015
• Steve Erickson
• Shadowbahn