Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand
Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand
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Generation Loss

Author: Elizabeth Hand

Narrator: Carol Monda

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/18/2019


Synopsis

Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame.Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption.

About Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than fifteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She's a longtime critic and contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others. She divides her time between the Maine coast and North London.

About Carol Monda

Carol Monda is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and accomplished voice-over artist. She is also an award-winning actor known for her work in Out of Season, After You Left, and The Gentlemen.


Reviews

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on May 31, 2021

I did not like this mystery thriller, ‘Generation Loss’ in so many ways until page 150! The author Elizabeth Hand has written a mystery story with strong literary novel overtones. But Hand spends too much time to suit me setting up the action and characters for two-thirds of the book. But it IS done......more

Goodreads review by Claude's on September 30, 2020

CW: (view spoiler)[Brutal rape, alcohol, drugs, death (hide spoiler)] 4.5 Stars I see you Well of course this won the first ever Shirley Jackson award! I loved the gothic elements that created quite a creepy and atmospheric read. Cass is a washed up photographer whose penchant for drugs and alcohol after the loss of her lover, Christ......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on October 07, 2016

An aging punk-rock photographer travels to Maine, aka Vacationland, to visit a brilliant reclusive artist who hasn't spoken in decades -- and discovers a world of weirdness and horror. The meditation on seeing, and how the observer changes what is seen, is brilliant, and so is the the extended metap......more


Quotes

“Intense and atmospheric, Generation Loss is an inventive brew of postpunk attitude and dark mystery. Elizabeth Hand writes with craftsmanship and passion.” George Pelecanos, New York Times bestselling author

“Although Generation Loss moves like a thriller, it detonates with greater resound. It’s a dark and beautiful novel.” Washington Post Book Review


Awards

  • Shirley Jackson Award
  • Literary Hub Pick