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Paul Theroux’s enthralling new novel begins with a party unlike any in literature: On New Year’s Eve, in the near future, eight wealthy New Yorkers fly in their private rotors for a holiday picnic in the forbidden O-Zone. This is the Ozark region, which has been contaminated by escaping nuclear waste stored in limestone caves. As Owners, members of the ruling class, the travelers have no trouble circumventing the quarantine. The O-Zone’s “gloomy beauty” haunts and bemuses them, but they are unscathed until they discover they are not alone. As they fly back to the heavily guarded towers of Manhattan they do not realize that this encounter with a band of aliens will change their lives utterly and forever… One of the picnickers will pursue against all odds a love affair with a free young woman—inspired by a single action photo image. A brilliant and awkward fifteen-year-old who is terrified of stepping out of his room and away from his computers will find himself kidnapped and struggling in the wilderness. Another will pursue with increasing viciousness his role as a gunship vigilante. A woman will take an erotic pilgrimage into her past to find the lover who had been hired to inseminate her, while her coldly distant husband pursues a plot to control the O-Zone. These dramas are played out in the streets of New York, in an Africa dotted by lavish and sinister vacation enclaves, in a California where the landslip has occurred and above all in the Zone itself—a beautiful and menacing Eden. No nuclear war has brought the world to this pass. Instead it is the inexorable pressing on of what we already see about us—from the Third World to Times Square, from the halls of the mighty to the haunts of terrorists and killer survivalists. And yet the human spirit—coping, ingenious, loving—flicker as it might, keeps its glow amid the despair and chaos. For all its sweep, savagely witty insights and profoundly disturbing worldview, <i>O-Zone</i> is powerful storytelling in the grandest tradition.
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O-Zone, Paul Theroux
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- 1986
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