The New World, Chris Adrian
The New World, Chris Adrian
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The New World
A Novel

Author: Chris Adrian

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Jorie has just received some terrible news. A phone full of missed calls and sympathetic text messages seems to indicate that her husband, Jim, a chaplain at the hospital where she works as a surgeon, is dead. Only, not quiterather, his head has been removed from his body and cryogenically frozen. Jim awakes to find himself in an altogether unique situation, to say the least: his body gone but his consciousness alive, his only companion a mysterious disembodied voice. In this surreal and unexpectedly moving work, Chris Adrian and Eli Horowitz spin a tale of loss and adjustment, death and reawakening. Simultaneously fabulist and achingly human, The New World finds Jorie grieving the husband she knew while Jim wrestles with the meaning of life after death. The New World investigates the meaning of love and loss in the digital era.

About Chris Adrian

Chris Adrian is an American author whose writing style in short stories varies greatly: from modernist realism to pronounced lyrical allegory. His novels also tend toward surrealism, focusing on mostly realistic characters who experience fantastic circumstances. He was selected by The New Yorker as one of its 20 Under 40 in 2010. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.


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