Strange Fire

Zusatztext *2017 PARENTS' CHOICE RECOMMENDED Informationen zum Autor Tommy Wallach is the author of the Anchor & Sophia trilogy, Thanks for the Trouble , and the New York Times bestselling We All Looked Up , which has been translated into over a dozen languages. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s , Tin House , Wired , and other magazines, and he is a MacDowell Fellow. He was signed to Decca Records as a singer-songwriter, and has independently released two full-length albums, including We All Looked Up: The Album , a companion record to his first novel. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he recently opened up his first escape room, and is working on bringing his novels to various sorts of screens. Grok more at TommyWallach.com. Klappentext With the thrill of Westworld combined with the epic nature of Game of Thrones comes a gripping new trilogy about family, war, and the power of knowledge from the author of the New York Times bestselling We All Looked Up . They said that the first generation of man was brought low by its appetites: for knowledge, for power, for wealth. It was so great, the Lord sent his own Daughter to bring fire and devastation to the world. Brothers Clive and Clover Hamill, the sons of a well-respected Descendant minister, have spent their lives spreading that gospel. But when their traveling ministry discovers a community called Sophia that's intent on rediscovering the blasphemous technologies of the past, a chain of events will be set in motion. Alongside Gemma Poplin, Clive’s childhood sweetheart, and Paz Dedios, a revolutionary who dreams of overthrowing the Descendancy, Clive’s and Clover’s paths will diverge, and each will play a part in determining the fate of humanity itself.Strange Fire 1. Clover CLOVER HAMILL ATTEMPTED TO CALCULATE his share of the modest birthday pie his mother had just brought out from the wagon. Three hundred and sixty degrees of pie divided by nine people was forty degrees each, but that would only be if the slices were cut evenly, which they seldom were. Clive, being the man of the hour, would be in charge of dividing the pie up, and that didn’t bode well for his younger brother. It wasn’t that Clive would apportion himself the largest piece—though no one could have blamed him for doing so on his own birthday—but that he would undoubtedly give outsize pieces to their mother for making the pie in the first place, and to their father and Eddie and Burns because the men needed to keep their strength up, and to Michael because he’d throw a tantrum otherwise, and to Gemma and Flora just because they were girls. Clover figured he would be lucky to end up with a twenty-degree slice. Given that the height of the pie was about four inches and the radius about five, his share would amount to . . . roughly seventeen cubic inches of pie. Attendant Bernstein could have taken the math even further—reckoning the caloric content of the pie based on its constituent ingredients, for example—but Clover hadn’t yet received the education to carry out such a calculation. His mother put the pie down on the trestle table. A lone beeswax candle was sunk into the middle of the doughy lattice, but the breeze had already put out the flame. Everything would have been so much better back at their house in the Anchor. The pie would have been a cake at least twice the size of this one, and the room would have been pitch dark but for the candle flames spitting shadows over the walls, and everyone would have been warm and comfortable and clean. But they weren’t at home. They were on the road. And on the road, you took what you could get. Clover realized he’...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tommy Wallach
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 17 Jahre
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781481468398
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-6839-8
• Seiten: 416
• Serien: The Anchor & Sophia; The Anchor & Sophia
• Thema: Kinder- und Jugendbücher