Apocalypse for Beginners
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The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad.
In the summer of 1989, Hope Randall's mother, in an attempt to forestall the latest imminent apocalypse, loads up the Lada and heads west from Yarmouth. After their car dies in Rivière-du-Loup, the mother and daughter put down roots, as yet another day of reckoning comes and goes.
Mickey Bauermann has never seen the likes of the red-headed wonder that is Hope, whose idea of a good time is spending Friday nights watching David Suzuki reveal the mysteries of science on TV. The Bauermann family has been in the concrete business for generations, but Mickey has other ideas of what he wants to do with his life. For now, he spends every available second with Hope, whose mother has become increasingly unhinged. The teens take refuge in Mickey's bungalow basement, aka The Bunker, where they watch the twentieth century crumble and transform on the small screen.
But when Hope's destiny as a Randall is revealed by chance—and by a bomb shelter's worth of ramen noodles—the time for hiding out is past. For Hope, the only way to deal with the end of the world is to confront it head on. The journey begins...
Nicolas Dickner
Nicolas Dickner (1972, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canadá) estudió Artes Plásticas y Literatura antes de viajar por América Latina y Europa y ejercer los más diversos oficios. También autor de relatos, se hizo conocido para el gran público gracias a su primera novela Nikolski (2005), que cosechó excelentes críticas y un gran número de premios literarios tanto en el original francés como en la versión inglesa. Apocalipsis para principiantes es su segunda novela y ha sido finalista del Gran Premio Literario Archambault, y está siendo publicada en varios idiomas. Nicolas Dickner vive actualmente con su familia en Montreal y es crítico literario y cronista en el semanario alternativo Voir.
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