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The Age (2014)

by Nancy Lee(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0771052529 (ISBN13: 9780771052521)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

McClelland & Stewart

review 1: When I was in the Age mentioned in the novel, Vancouver was a playground not yet shared with the rest of the world, and Nancy Lee does a good job presenting the old (yet barely 100-year old city) in all it grimy details. It was tough to actually picture the story taking place in the city Vancouver had become, but to backcast from the here and now to then, plus an outlying possibility of nuclear fall-out, seems to make sense as the story centres on a tomboyish girl and the establishment of Peace Cove. Even Lee's description of the Peace March fracturing into a mob rule is a sideshadow for the imagined space that somehow become the most expensively unaffordable place on the planet.
review 2: Interesting read about a teenager's fears and hopes in a time of world u... morenrest. Geraldine (Gerry) tries to cope with her parent's divorce and her father's abandonment, she yearns for love and acceptance as an adult, makes mistakes but survives them with physical and mental scars. The parallel story in a post-apocalyptic world did not seem related to the teenager story or it was related to it just because of Gerry's fears in relation to the nuclear arms escalation. I received the book from a First Reads GoodReads giveaway. less

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