{"product_id":"survivor-song-a-novel-isbn-9780062679161","title":"Survivor Song: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA propulsive and chillingly prescient pandemic novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cabin at the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Head Full of Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and the government's emergency protocols are faltering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Ramola \"Rams\" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine. In a desperate race against time, the clock is ticking for her and for her unborn child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie’s fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way through a hostile landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst nightmares—terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Tremblay once again demonstrates his mastery in this chilling and all-too-plausible medical thriller that will leave readers racing through the pages . . . and shake them to their core.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Why does \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e work so hard to keep the reader firmly in the existential terror of the here and now? Is it to scare the shit out of us? It does that, sure. But, no, it’s not horror for horror’s sake, torture porn, an apocalypse narrative. \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e actually gives us a solution, and a wonderfully simple one: refusing the lies we tell ourselves because we think they’re helping us survive, when they’re only isolating us from the gifts of others.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Perhaps this novel is not meant to frighten us or to give us nightmares. Perhaps it is meant to give us hope—hope that one day we may all bravely unite together and fight against a common enemy. Perhaps, one day, we will all be able to stand together and sing that survivor song. Regardless of its intent, horror fans are going to be talking about \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e for months after its publication.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSFRevu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A terrifyingly realistic take on the zombie trope. . .A fast-paced, gritty, emotionally wrenching thriller.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook and Film Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Survivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a horror novel with a lot of heart; an engaging, immersive, touching, fast read that’s incredibly timely and packed with sharp observations. I would say it’s one of Tremblay’s best, but that is something most reviews say, so instead I’ll say this: Maine has its horror guy, and now Massachusetts has its guy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVol 1Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tremblay is an undeniably skillful writer. The sentences are lean where they need to be, decorative where they need to be. . . . He knows how to drive the story forward, while affording it a layer of linguistic color.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a small horror story. A personal one. A fast and terrible one that is committed beautifully to the page. . . . It exists in a pandemic world where all choices are bad ones. Where things unravel faster than you can possibly believe. Where happy endings are transactional: they come with a cost. Because \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e isn't a fairy tale. It's a horror story.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e will leave emotional trenches in your heart long after you’ve finished trying to ugly-cry and read at the same time. . . . A gift to readers right here, right now. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCemetery Dance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Inventive… an emotional punch… There is plenty here traditional zombie fans will recognize and enjoy.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tremblay has earned worldwide acclaim because he is able to seamlessly combine reality with speculative elements, and his newest may be his most prescient yet. . . . Gorgeously written about terrible things, the relatively short \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a good choice for fans of pandemic epics . . . and novels that probe themes of friendship, family, and social commentary amidst chillingly realistic horror.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The vividly drawn characters of Ramola and Natalie give the story an uncommon emotional intensity. This is genuinely hard to put down.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Tremblay's] warmest and most humane book to date. Eruptions of violence are answered by moments of poignancy.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gripping . . . a thinking person’s thriller, interspersed with moments of hilarity . . . a buzz-saw of a novel.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Prescient.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Absolutely riveting. I haven’t been able to put it down.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Packed full of emotion and suspense, \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is so gripping it may as well have been glued to my hands. Paul Tremblay is a master of modern horror.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Littlewood, author of The Crow Garden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For the past few years, Paul Tremblay has been setting the standard for modern horror. His genius is that he never forgets the core of a great horror novel resides first in its characters. In \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e, he revitalizes the zombie novel by keeping the focus narrow and intimate: two women, in the space of a few hours, just trying to get across town. The result is heartfelt and terrifying, in a narrative that moves like a bullet train.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brutality spreads in this novel as swiftly as the wild epidemic Tremblay has invented. A daring, terrifying work packed with horror, but also with larger questions about what meaningful survival might be.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIdra Novey, author of Those Who Knew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A cinematic scope, scenarios grounded in the real world, and a breathless pace make this thriller one of the must-read titles of the summer. A prescient, insidious horror novel that takes sheer terror to a whole new level.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[F]resh and surprising. \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e may be one of Tremblay’s best – beautifully detailed, viscerally frightening, and deep with emotional resonance.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e is a breathlessly compelling read, powerfully frightening and very moving – a nightmare that rings all too terribly true.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRamsey Campbell, author of The Wise Friend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Intensely gripping, shocking, and raw, Survivor Song is a visceral ride through a couple of hours of a deadly disease outbreak. Tremblay pulls no punches, but you wouldn't want him to––his characters are real people, and it's the brutal honesty that helps this terrifying song soar.\"  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Lebbon, author of Eden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eSurvivor Song\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Tremblay offers an unsettling journey across New England as two women, one a doctor, the other her pregnant best friend, try to outrun a rabies-like virus. It’s both an achingly lovely exploration of female friendship and a terrifying race against time. I was fighting tears and gasping out loud and couldn’t put it down.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDamien Angelica Walters, author of The Dead Girls Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889251578085,"sku":"NP9780062679161","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062679161.jpg?v=1730230846","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/survivor-song-a-novel-isbn-9780062679161","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}