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The second history : a novel
- Title
- The second history : a novel / Rebecca Silver Slayter.
- Author
- Silver Slayter, Rebecca
- Publication
- Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2021]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-3248 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 270 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "The Second History is a post-apocalyptic love story about a young couple embarking on a journey to understand, for the first time, what they've been hiding from all their lives. Born in a barren, altered future world, Eban has lived in hiding all his life without ever understanding why. After his mother's death, he retreated into the northern Appalachians with Judy, the only other woman he has ever known. But as the years passed and Judy suffered multiple miscarriages, she began to wonder what happened to the cities their parents fled, where a strange sickness is said to have spread among those who stayed behind. To stop the headstrong woman he loves from leaving the safety of the hills to travel to the cities, Eban convinces Judy instead to set out on a journey to the fabled colony of the original mountain settlers, where he promises her they'll find the answers she seeks. Now expecting a child once again, Judy and Eban begin their climb deep into the mountains. Along the way, the people they encounter and the secrets they uncover will threaten their lives and the ties between them, further complicating what they know of the world beyond the mountains and of each other. Set in a far-flung time and place that begin to feel increasingly familiar, The Second History explores the devastating effects of environmental catastrophe on human relationships. It is a story about the limits of our ability to know each other or understand the past . . . and about the courage it takes to invent the world again for those we love."--
- Subject
- Science fiction, Canadian
- Genre/Form
- Science fiction.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3248
- ISBN
- 9780385694445
- 038569444X
- OCLC
- 1200498843
- Author
- Silver Slayter, Rebecca, author.
- Title
- The second history : a novel / Rebecca Silver Slayter.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Silver Slayter, Rebecca. Second history. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2021 0385694458 9780385694452 (OCoLC)1200498845
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3248