Black Moon

Name: Black Moon
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Kenneth Calhoun
ISBN: 9781629235905

Author: Kenneth Calhoun

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 03/25/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, succumbed before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her. He ventures out into a world ransacked by mass confusion and desperation, where he meets others struggling against the tide of sleeplessness. Chase and Jordan are devising a scheme to live off their drug-store lootings; Lila is a high school student wandering the streets in an owl mask; Felicia abandons the sanctuary of a sleep research center to try to protect her family and perhaps reunite with Chase, an ex-boyfriend. However, Biggs persists in his quest for Carolyn, finding a resolve and inner strength that he never knew he had.

About Kenneth Calhoun

Kenneth Calhoun has had stories published in The Paris Review, Tin House, and the 2011 Pen/O. Henry Prize Collection, among others. He lives in Boston, where he is a graphic design professor at Lasell College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

oh look - another book about a mysterious insomnia epidemic and the physical and psychological toll a body in severe sleep deprivation undergoes. and it is great. but i get that it's not a crowd-pleaser. it is necessarily hallucinatory in places, there are several story lines to follow (although they......more

Goodreads review by Maciek

There's a recurring trend in popular literature - a large number of debuting authors begin their careers with publishing a dystopia. Dystopias are in; readers - nowadays especially the younger ones - love them, and even more so when they are expanded into a series - just look at the great success of......more

Goodreads review by The Shayne-Train

I found this story of insomnia-caused apocalypse very entertaining. The writing was immediately gripping, and the glimpses into the characters' inner thoughts, memories, and reasoning made them immediately relatable. NO ONE CAN SLEEP! ERMAHGERRD! This drives people batty! No chance to refresh the min......more

Goodreads review by Katie

I can't help but wonder if the ARC I've been given through work is different to everyone else's (judging by the star ratings anyway). The writing is great, flows well, the characters are all distinctive, there's not much to fault initially. In fact, I thought that it was going to turn into a Stephen......more