Lost Everything
by Brian Slattery
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Critic Rating
50%
Critic Reviews: 9
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70%
Reader Ratings: 4
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Synopsis
The highly awaited new standalone dystopian novel from Brian SlatteryFrom the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling future history dystopia in the vein of 1984 or The Hunger Games. Lost Everything is the story of a man who takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River, through a version of America that’s been torn apart by a mysterious war, in order to find and rescue his lost wife... more
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Published: April 10, 2012 by Macmillan Publishing
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy. Fiction. 304 pages
- All Critics: 9
- Positive: 5
- Negative: 4
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AV Club | 16 Apr 2012
To Slattery’s credit, Lost Everything doesn’t offer sermons or solutions, just a poignant, poetic, devastating way of pondering the questions.
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The World in the Satin Bag | 7 May 2012
Optimism at its finest, and handled by Slattery with simple, but beautiful prose and through a narrative that collapses the past and present to show us who people were and who they have become.
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Kirkus Reviews | 1 Apr 2012
The end-of-times setting and ruminations on the power of family relationships are intriguing, but the novel is plagued by an unsatisfying, scattershot execution.
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Backlisted | 10 Apr 2012
Slattery’s employment of subtlety and restraint prevents Lost Everything from being boiled down to its barest essentials. Highly recommended.
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The Wall Street Journal | 14 Apr 2012
Brian Slattery's "Lost Everything" is much less fun than his "Liberation" (2008 … there is nothing slick about it, and little in the way of adventures.
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn | 23 Apr 2012
But like much else in Lost Everything, that liberal bona fide doesn’t quite make for a crackling yarn.
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Upcoming4.Me | 11 Apr 2012
Though on the surface "Lost Everything" might seem like Brian and Tor are jumping on the postapocalyptic bandwagon created by books such as Hunger Games, Lost Everything is much more serious and clever book more in vein of The Road than the former.
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Publishers Weekly | 7 May 2012
Slattery's dystopian U.S. is so bleak and heavy-handedly tragic, readers will likely tire of the trip long before the riverhead.
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Tor | 10 Apr 2012
Lost Everything is the sort of book you think you can read on the bus to work or while waiting for the dryer to chime. But instead it drowns you gradually, drop by drop, until you’ve lost whole swaths of time.
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