The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Everything goes down, no internet or power, no oil, ammunition goes bad. We join the story following journeyman, who delivers food and stuff to the inhabitants of a farming community in Maine. Then a nuclear powered supercar arrives, piloted by an old friend and scriptwriting partner of his who has driven across America to see him and his sister, who runs one of the farms and leads the community. Tensions arise.
Journeyman is not so much an unreliable narrator as a clueless one, but you can see the payoff or punchline from the other side of the harbour. Mostly fun, better than the don delillo that used a similar end time premise.
Everything goes down, no internet or power, no oil, ammunition goes bad. We join the story following journeyman, who delivers food and stuff to the inhabitants of a farming community in Maine. Then a nuclear powered supercar arrives, piloted by an old friend and scriptwriting partner of his who has driven across America to see him and his sister, who runs one of the farms and leads the community. Tensions arise.
Journeyman is not so much an unreliable narrator as a clueless one, but you can see the payoff or punchline from the other side of the harbour. Mostly fun, better than the don delillo that used a similar end time premise.
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