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NOD

by (author) Adrian Barnes

read by Tim Beckman

Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Initial publish date
Jun 2016
Category
General
  • CD-Audio

    ISBN
    9781531842710
    Publish Date
    Jun 2016
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award.

Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one has slept the night before, or almost no one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they've all shared the same strange, golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they're dreaming remains a mystery.

After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep, she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole...NOD.

About the authors

Adrian Barnes was born in Blackpool, England but moved to Canada in 1969. He teaches English at Selkirk College, British Columbia. He is married with two children. He received an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and NOD is his first published novel.

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