Fülszöveg
"smart, witty, grotesque,
and brutal:
P Hi THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER •
beware; all who enter here.
into the America of the 21st century, this forbidden land of nuclear
waste, mutants,!and aliens. Even now, so many years after the disaster, O-Zone remains under quarantine, off-limits to all but the
\ wealthiest Owners.
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To these eight Owners, ilis amusement, a New Year's Eve picnic. The land's wild beauty aw-^ them—but the aliens are a shock: the two the Owners kill look disturbingly human.
Haunted, Hooper Allbright will return to the depths of the zone—and
find, among the aliens, the only woman he's ever loved. His nephew Fisher, brilliant and tormented, will disappear into the aliens' uncharted life—first a victim, finally a hero. And Moura, made a motherby a man she never knew, will face the challenge of her
long-buried craving.
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Beware, Owners, of the bitter brave new world beware the O-Zone's most dangerous secret—the fascination of the untamed.
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Fülszöveg
"smart, witty, grotesque,
and brutal:
P Hi THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER •
beware; all who enter here.
into the America of the 21st century, this forbidden land of nuclear
waste, mutants,!and aliens. Even now, so many years after the disaster, O-Zone remains under quarantine, off-limits to all but the
\ wealthiest Owners.
V )
To these eight Owners, ilis amusement, a New Year's Eve picnic. The land's wild beauty aw-^ them—but the aliens are a shock: the two the Owners kill look disturbingly human.
Haunted, Hooper Allbright will return to the depths of the zone—and
find, among the aliens, the only woman he's ever loved. His nephew Fisher, brilliant and tormented, will disappear into the aliens' uncharted life—first a victim, finally a hero. And Moura, made a motherby a man she never knew, will face the challenge of her
long-buried craving.
o
Beware, Owners, of the bitter brave new world beware the O-Zone's most dangerous secret—the fascination of the untamed.
"Almost alone among contemporary American writers, Theroux is willing to take on new challenges and unexplored territory." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
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