Overview: Heather Christle's second collection, The Trees The Trees, is ecstatic, breathless, full of incandescent humor and wonder, full of miniature moment s hums, pocked with graceful elisions and gasps; there is spell bound play and intense intimacy in each gap toothed, center-justified prose po
The Trees
β Scribed by Shaw, Ali
- Book ID
- 108789397
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 401 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781408862261
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β¦ Synopsis
There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins...
There is no warning. No chance to prepare.
They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves.
Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realises that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognisable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether the trees have come for her too.
Then Adrien meets green-fingered Hannah and her teenage son Seb. Together, they set out to find Hannah's forester brother, to reunite Adrien with...
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