The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker - ISBN: 9781471173592
Paperback
Perpetual sleep descends: dreams trap a town, life is altered.

The Dreamers

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    2 June 2021

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Summary

Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written… this book is stunning’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

*The eagerly awaited new novel from the author of *The Age of Miracles~~

Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months…

Karen Thompson Walker’s second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781471173592
ISBN-10:1471173593
Author:Karen Thompson Walker
Publisher:Simon & Schuster Ltd
Imprint:Scribner UK
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:2 June 2021
Weight:266g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 23mm
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Critics Review

‘Harrowing, riveting, profoundly moving, and beautifully written… this book is stunning’ Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven ‘This beautiful and devastating novel has a dream-like quality of its own’ Red ‘Lovely, lyrical and scary… a mesmerising read’ Psychologies ‘A thought-provoking and profound story’ Cosmopolitan ‘Lyrical and beguiling… a deeply immersive novel about a community in peril… and the choices we make when our lives, and those of our loved ones, are in danger’ The Observer ‘A modern Midsummer Night’s Dream… Walker paints a haunting canvas exploring time, memory, consciousness, and youth’ Marisha Pessl, author of Night Film ‘Frighteningly powerful, beautiful, and uncanny… a love story and also a horror story’ Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove ‘This is a profound novel, and a deeply moving one… she takes a terrifying situation and reveals it as a thing of beauty’ Robin Black, author of Life Drawing ‘A slow-building, philosophical and unique novel… at once a thought-provoking character study and a subtle science fiction tale’ Culturefly ‘Powerful and moving… written with symphonic sweep’ New York Times Book Review ’[An] imaginative, disturbing and ultimately spellbinding narrative, which asks provokative questions about our concepts of time and connection, and the bounds of possibility for life on earth’ Vogue ‘Powerful, thoughtful and entirely original’ PopSugar

About The Author

Karen Thompson Walker

Karen Thompson Walker is a graduate of UCLA and the Columbia MFA program. A former book editor, she wrote The Age of Miracles in the mornings before work. Born and raised in San Diego, California, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

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