The loop /
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Saga Press, 2020Edition: First Saga Press hardcover editionDescription: 306 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781534454293
- 1534454292
- 813/.6 23
- PS3610.O35643 L66 2020
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Fiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | JOHNSON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 03/23/2024 | 50610022722032 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The year's most brutal, cinematic thrill ride is also one of its most critically acclaimed novels. Dazed and Confused meets 28 Days Later in this "wickedly entertaining," ( Kirkus Reviews ) "volcano of a book" (Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds ) as a lonely young woman teams up with a group of fellow outcasts to survive the night in a town overcome by a science experiment gone wrong.
A Best Book of the Month for Den of Geek , Omnivoracious , Mystery & Suspense , and Tor .
A Goodreads ' 2020 Readers Choice Nominee for Best Horror, and one of the Best Books of 2020 for The Lineup , Booked , and Unsettling Reads .
Turner Falls is a small tourist town nestled in the hills of central Oregon. When a terrifying outbreak rapidly develops, this idyllic town becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence.
The Loop is a "wild and wonderfully scary novel" (Richard Chizmar, author of Gwendy's Magic Feather ) that offers a "hilarious and horrifying" (Brian Keene, author of The Rising ) look at what one team of misfits can accomplish as they fight to live through the night.
"[A] harrowing thrill ride of the first order and an uncompromising page-turner, easily securing its spot as one of the best novels of 2020." -- Rue Morgue (featured "Dante's Pick" Review)
"Like the best of Crichton or Bentley, it is a great beach read, but it is infused with the neon blood of a brave new writer... [A] kind of literary roller coaster. It will take you to thrilling highs and terrifying lows..." -- Los Angeles Review of Books
" The Loop is the gore-soaked, anxiety-inducing, diabolically funny Richard Linklater/David Cronenberg mashup you never knew you wanted but can't--or at least shouldn't--live without." -- The Big Thrill
"Unputdownable...Fans of The Twilight Zone , The X-Files , and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything...[a] heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale." -- Booklist
" The Loop is a remarkably propulsive novel, cinematic in the best way, with perfectly tuned tension and excellent character choices...a headlong, straightforward pleasure." -- Locus
" The Loop is the Cronenberg film we never got." --Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds
A small town in Western Oregon becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence as the teenage daughters and sons of several executives who happen to work at the biotech firm nestled in the hills have become ill, and oddly, aggressively, murderous.
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Publishers Weekly Review
This unputdownable coming-of-age thriller from Johnson (Skullcrack City) melds body horror, conspiracy theories, and bizarre science gone wrong. Lucy and her friend Bucket are two of the only brown kids in the majority white Turner Falls high school, and are used to abuse from other kids and the feeling of being outsiders. But when an evil corporation, IMTECH, decides to test its top-secret biotech on the town's teenagers, bullying becomes the least of their problems. At a party, Lucy and Bucket witness their classmates brutalizing each other, the result of being affected by the biotech. Together with Lucy's crush and a local conspiracy theorist, Lucy and Bucket must survive the night and save their classmates from themselves. Johnson has a gift for lightening up dark moments with humor and human connection, and though set over the course of an all-night gore-fest, the well-shaded characters are given plenty of room to breathe; the moments of quiet make the scares all the more powerful. Fans of The Twilight Zone, The X-Files, and Stranger Things will be especially thrilled. Agent: Molly Glick, CAA. (Sept.)Booklist Review
Turner Falls, Oregon is an idyllic town with a biotech company at its center and is the perfect setting for one of the best supernatural thrillers of the year. In a high school classroom, a young man snaps, violently attacking and killing the teacher with his bare hands. Unfortunately this is not an isolated incident. A group of outcast teens, led by the narrator, Lucy, herself a survivor of trauma, quickly comes to realize that the town's rich kids have all been infected with an unnatural technology that wants to replicate itself at all costs. This fast-paced tale is told over one desperate night, as the protagonists try to stay alive and stop the tech before it can spread beyond Turner Falls. But Johnson gives readers more than a thrill ride: The Loop is also a cautionary tale and a satisfyingly dark satire of, well, everything, a highly original apocalyptic tale that is uncomfortably relevant. Imagine Blake Crouch and Mira Grant re-writing Chuck Wendig's Wanderers (2019)--fans of all three authors are part of the wide audience who will flock to this heart-pounding and deeply unsettling tale.Kirkus Book Review
Weirdness invades a small Oregon town as a government experiment gone wrong escapes containment. Where to start with the pop-culture influences that erupt in this second novel by Johnson, author of the novel Skullcrack City (2015) and the story collection Entropy in Bloom (2017)? It opens with a Goonies/Super 8 vibe: There's a bunch of high school misfits led by Lucy, a Peruvian adoptee whose closest friend is "Bucket" Marwani, whose Pakistani heritage makes him another brown kid targeted for abuse by their classmates. The nightmarish scenario goes all Stephen King's Cell when one of the kids' classmates goes berserk and kills a teacher before perishing himself. In the meantime, we're getting broadcasts from the Nightwatchman, a self-styled radio shock jock pulling the curtain back on the utter weirdness erupting in Turner Falls, Oregon, á la Welcome to Night Vale. When things really kick off, it looks like a modernization of the townies-versus--rich-kids trope until the whole thing goes to hell and Lucy and her posse are just fighting for their lives. If you're into this kind of thing, there are some carrots, like Lucy having her first kiss, which is kind of sweet, but as our heroes descend into the (inevitably) human-made nightmare, it gets pretty grotesque. Is there a secret laboratory? Check--in the supersecret IMTECH facility near our little village of idiots--making something that has gotten completely out of control. Lucy is a fierce protagonist, but from this point it evolves into a wetwork nightmare straight out of Chuck Wendig's daydreams. There's some prescient dark humor here, too: "Shoot, man. Maybe. That's usually how it goes, right? But I don't know about this situation. The whole city is on fire, man. I don't think these guys are checking bank balances before they start murdering people. Could be the old rules, rich, poor, none of it means much anymore." A wickedly entertaining but also grotesque teen nightmare that's pretty much Stranger Things meets Rogue One. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of the critically acclaimed collection Entropy in Bloom as well as the breakthrough cult novel Skullcrack City . His fiction has been praised by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly , authors such as David Wong, Chuck Palahniuk, and Jack Ketchum, and has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies and magazines. In 2008, he worked with The Mars Volta to tell the story behind their Grammy Award-winning album, The Bedlam in Goliath . In 2010 he spoke about weirdness and metaphor as a survival tool at the Fractal 10 conference in Medellin, Colombia. In 2017, his short story "When Susurrus Stirs" was adapted for film and won numerous awards including the Final Frame Grand Prize and Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. Jeremy is intermittently social over at Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @JRL_Is_Probable.There are no comments on this title.