Book Overview
One Year After is the New York Times bestselling follow-up to William R. Forstchen's smash hit One Second After, the novel cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read
The story begins one year after One Second After ends, two years since nuclear weapons were detonated above the United States and brought America to its knees. After months of suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to recover technology and supplies they had once taken for granted, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. When a "federal administrator" arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging. That hope quickly diminishes when town administrator John Matherson learns that most of the young men and women in the community are to be drafted into the "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. But "the New Regime" is already tyrannizing one nearby community. Will Matherson's friends and neighbors be next? This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback. The John Matherson Series#1 One Second After
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Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsLeff is a great storyteller!
I am one of those readers who devours an engaging novel and puts one that does not capture my interest down after the first few pages. These surprising and moving stories about quirky, real characters had my interest from page one. True that these are separate stories but to me the building itself is a character that holds it all together as a novel--and the same characters emerge at different times from different points of...
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Rated 5 starsEntertaining and touching
I couldn't put this book down, eager to see what the characters would do next. It is a story told with humor, and edgy social insight but also with deep humanity. The residents of an Upper East side apartment building are drawn in authentic strokes but are not stereotypes. We know their shortcomings but also their unique flavors. Read it and enjoy!
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Rated 5 starsBrilliant, Desarming and Compassionate!
980 Park Avenue sets the scene for three decades of dramatic and touching stories. Each apartment is a different reality depicted with wit, generosity and a disarming authenticity I found very appealing and explicit. You will feel the reality of these stories, the quality and serious substance, doesn't go unnoticed here. The people are real and the ironic touch of fate keeps them closer than they realize. This is a gem, you...
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Rated 5 starsA Rare and Delightful Read
Books that explore class difference in America are usually heavy, depressing and pedantic. Better Homes and Husbands is a delightful departure. Set in one of the great old apartment buildings on Park Avenue in New York City, the novel takes us into the lives of those who live there and those who work there, from the baroness in the penthouse all the way down to the illegal Guatemalans hidden in a bedroom in one of the grand...
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Rated 5 starsThis Year's Must Read - A Great Summer Book!
I didn't exactly grow up in the world (the haves and have mores) depicted in Better Homes and Husbands, but I grew up adjacent to it-certainly close enough to marvel at Valerie Ann Leff's ability to x-ray the lives and loves, illusions and delusions of a certain caste of moneyed New Yorkers who inhabit one of Park Avenue's storied addresses (albeit a fictional one). Valerie's talent for observation is flawless, and her prose...
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