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The Last One by Alexandra Oliva (CD-Audio, 2016)

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Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva s fast-paced vel of suspense. She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show.Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants kw thing of it. When one of them a young woman the show s producers call Zoo stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game. Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life and husband she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills and learn new ones as she goes. But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing. Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a vel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated. Praise for The Last One[Alexandra] Oliva brilliantly scrutinizes the recorded (and heavily revised) narratives we believe, and the last one hundred pages will have the reader constantly guessing just what Zoo is capable of doing to find her way back home. Washington PostA high-concept, high-octane affair . . . The conceit is undoubtedly clever and . . . well executed, but what makes The Last One such a page-turner is Zoo herself: practical, tough-minded and appealing. The GuardianOliva takes this (possibly) post-apocalyptic setting, grafts on a kwledgeable skewering of the inner workings of reality television and gives us a gripping story of survival. . . . This is the genius of Oliva s storytelling. . . . [She] makes a stunning debut with this page turner, and becomes a writer to watch. Seattle TimesOliva delivers a pulse-pounding psychological tale of survival. . . . [She] masterfully manipulates her characters and the setting, creating a mash-up of popular TV genres: Survivor meets The Walking Dead.Bookpage The TV show Survivor meets Cormac McCarthy s The Road in Oliva s stellar debut. . . . Fueled by brilliantly intimate and insightful writing as well as an endearing and fully realized female lead, this apocalyptic vel draws its power from Zoo s realizations about society and herself as she struggles to survive long eugh to somehow make it back to her home. Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Last One seamlessly melds two of our contemporary obsessions the threat of global catastrophe and the staged drama of reality TV into a fiercely imagined tale of the human psyche under stress. This is an uncompromising, thought-provoking debut. Justin Cronin Like The Hunger Games,Alexandra Oliva s vel is page-turning and deeply unsettling. Rosamund Lupton Tense and gorgeous and so damn clever . . . I loved every second. Lauren Beukes From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0147522641
ISBN-13
9780147522641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222080395

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Author
Alexandra Oliva
Format
CD-Audio, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure

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Running Time
750
Read by
Mike Chamberlain,Nicol Zanzarella
Author Biography
Alexandra Oliva was born and raised in upstate New York. She has a BA in history from Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. The Last One is her first novel. From the Hardcover edition.
Contained Items Statement
10 Audio Cds
Date of Publication
12/07/2016
Country of Publication
United States

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