![]() As it turns out, my review of her debut is fairly similar to how I feel about The Dreamers, comma splices aside. I read Walker's The Age of Miracles more than six years ago, didn't love it, but wanted to give her another try. I'm rating this purely based on my personal enjoyment and connection with the narrative. These days, science doesn’t take much interest in dreams.Ģ½ stars. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.Written in luminous prose, The Dreamers is a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life if only we are awakened to them.More Simon & Schuster 9781471173561 A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (Hardback)Imagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months.Karen Thompson Walker's second novel tells the mesmerising story of a town transformed by a mystery illness that locks people in perpetual sleep and triggers extraordinary, life-altering dreams.One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her room and falls asleep. ![]()
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