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Set in the city of Victoria, British Columbia, Into That Darkness opens at the moment when a massive earthquake hits the entire west coast with devastating results. Amid the destruction of the city, survivors are left to negotiate a calamity in which bonds of civility are pushed to their limits and often broken.
When Arthur Lear hears a voice crying in the rubble, he finds himself descending deep under a collapsed building in a desperate attempt to save a young boy and his mother. But what he discovers there will change him forever - as circumstances lead him across the city's broken landscape, through the chaos of its hospitals and streets, in a harrowing search for the mother's lost daughter. Over the days that follow, Lear's very sense of humanness will be tested and compromised, as he faces the limits of himself and his fellow survivors, in his long journey home.
A novel for our age of anxiety and fear, Steven Price delivers a powerful story about the physical manifestation of the darker things lurking in our culture, in ourselves."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must Read,
This review is from: Into That Darkness (Paperback)
Living in Victoria (where the book takes place) I was eager to read it. It was impossible to put down. On the West Coast, we are aware that "THE BIG ONE" could come at any time, but I don't think we really consider the likely breakdown of societal structure as we know it. It is one of those 'unspeakable' things - like the elephant in the room - that will go away if we don't speak of it.When food, shelter and water are in short supply but high demand, days after the destruction, our animal instincts and savagery likely will take over. Price writes with little punctuation, which takes a page or two to get used to, but as one reads on, it seems to be appropriate for the story....events vs memories, reality vs illusion, hope vs despair. It reminds me very much of a movie I saw years ago, called "Threads", from Britain, though that was nuclear disaster. Dark, ugly, brutal and disturbing - a more realistic depiction than the American "The Day After" with Jason Robards running around in a pure white shirt throughout. This book was hard to put down - it is very humanistic as told through the voices of an old man, a mother and her young son, where each learns that they are no longer who they were before the quake. I would suggest it be made part of the school curriculum - in a world where our youth expect instant gratification and rely on the perception of infallible technology, this book is a wake-up call. Believe PEP - it isn't going to be a rehearsal when it comes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting and mesmerizing,
This review is from: Into That Darkness (Paperback)
This was a totally engrossing read. I couldn't put it down. When it was finished I wanted to turn back to chapter one and read it all over again. If you want a story that takes you completely into another world, read this book. Wise and haunting and redemptive. Beautiful and heartbreaking. The most underrated book of the year. I will be looking for Price's books in the future.
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