The New World, Chris Adrian
The New World, Chris Adrian
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The New World
A Novel

Author: Chris Adrian

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quiterather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice. In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. The New World investigates the meaning of love and loss in the digital era.

About Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian is an American author whose writing style in short stories varies greatly: from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels also tend toward surrealism, focusing on mostly realistic characters who experience fantastic circumstances. He was selected by The New Yorker as one of its 20 Under 40 in 2010. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on January 27, 2016

No.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 21, 2015

3 1/2 stars. When this book first started it was pretty amazing. The word I kept thinking was "complex". A man dies and has his head frozen cryogenic style and now he has to go through the process of navigating his consciousnesses to another plane of existence, the new world. Meanwhile, his wife ha......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 10, 2016

well, I liked this but I'm not exactly sure why. I've seen comments about 'great first half/poor second half' but I liked them both... they just didn't seem to fit together well. I suspect this is one that would benefit from a second reading since the end of the story seems to really be the end of "......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on March 20, 2016

The New World has early slightly goofy but still touching sci-fi promise (what if the cryonics people were right and you could be restored to life in the future? how could you live knowing your prior "life" was lost to you forever?). Sadly, as others have noted, the book loses its way completely abo......more

Goodreads review by dc on January 17, 2016

this book tried hard to be interesting. maybe too hard. the writing, while good, built no bridges to the plot. instead, i was left peering over a chasm that, in the end, i was fine walking away from.......more

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