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2021., Talonbooks Call No: NEW QWF Fic Gua Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In Falling Shadows, a lone man walks in the forest towards the hunting camp where his family has taken refuge to escape the upheaval caused by a widespread power failure. He knows he is threatened. One day, having lost his way, a twelve-year-old boy, mysteriously fearless and familiar, calls out to him. The unusual duo will have to face the hostility of the wilderness and thwart the offensive groups that now inhabit the woods. This is Québec writer Christian Guay-Poliquin's much-anticipated third instalment in the series of gripping post-apocalyptic novels initiated with Running on Fumes and prolonged by the international bestseller The Weight of Snow. Throughout these novels, Guay-Poliquin has developed a unique storytelling craft; his narratives are grounded in the demands and details of daily life and in a world ripe with experience. Adventurous and cleverly assembled, Falling Shadows questions the meaning of community and revisits the thrilling excitement associated with the wilderness and survival classics like McCarthy's The Road and King's The Stand.
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2016., Talonbooks Call No: Fic Gua Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A story of exhaustion and solitude; of confabulations, encounters, and alcohol; and of a labyrinth running in a straight line.When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,736 kilometres to reach his dying father.As the narrator's journey becomes one of essentials - gasoline, fresh water only in bottles, and gas-station food - and as the crisis engulfing his surroundings begins to weigh on him ever more,he seeks refuge in a woman, and later, with a fellow traveller he meets on the road. These two kindred souls join him on his path, though they seem to seek a different sort of redemption.As the road grows longer, and the narrator's exhaustion grows in kind, parallels are drawn between his own journey and Thesus's journey through the primeval Labyrinth. However, the beast that our narrator seeks to slay might not be one of flesh and horn and blood; instead, it is his own failing mental state and his thirst for the apocalypse around him. In the end, the obsession with which he pursues this beast will be his undoing.Running on Fumes, is a road novel that carries with it influences of the genre, with its storylines of redemption through distance travelled, often in a failing world that reflects the protagonist's interior. It is a hazy line that delineates whether the world is reflecting the narrator's state or whether the narrator's mindset is reflected by the world, and there remains a level of uncertainty on the truths the narrator speaks.
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2019., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Gua Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?"--.
