Swan Song
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4.6 • 48 Ratings
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- £10.99
Publisher Description
New York Times Bestseller: A young girl's visions offer the last hope in a postapocalyptic wasteland in this "grand and disturbing adventure" (Dean Koontz).
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Swan is a nine-year-old Kansas girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom—something far wider than the narrow scope of her own beleaguered life. In a blinding flash, nuclear bombs annihilate civilization, leaving only a few buried survivors to crawl onto a scorched landscape that was once America.
In Manhattan, a homeless woman stumbles from the sewers, guided by the prophecies of a mysterious amulet, and pursued by something wicked; on Idaho's Blue Dome Mountain, an orphaned boy falls under the influence of depraved survivalists and discovers the value of a killer instinct; and amid the devastating dust storms on the Great Plains of Nebraska, Swan forms a heart-and-soul bond with an unlikely new companion. Soon they will cross paths. But only Swan knows that they must endure more than just a trek across an irradiated country of mutated animals, starvation, madmen, and wasteland warriors.
Swan's visions tell of a coming malevolent force. It's a shape-shifting embodiment of the apocalypse, and of all that is evil and despairing. And it's hell-bent on destroying the last hope of goodness and purity in the world. Swan is that hope. Now, she must fight not only for her own survival, but for that of all mankind.
A winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, Swan Song has become a modern classic, called "a chilling vision that keeps you turning pages to the shocking end" by John Saul and "a long, satisfying look at hell and salvation" by Publishers Weekly.
Customer Reviews
If you do one thing for yourself…
Read this book. There’s literally nothing else to say. It’ll stay with me forever
Cannot stand
I love a good post- apocalyptic novel, and this is not that. A weirdly plagiaristic version of The Stand that doesn’t have any internal character development beyond ‘this thing happened and it made them more determined or more debauched’ and then nearly everyone has a moment of redemption, and then in the last 2-3 pages we enter a pre-lapserian rural american utopia
Very poor
This is perfection
This book quite literally shaped my way of thinking, my grandfather read me his own edited version when I was about 8 or 9 taking out all the bits I couldn't hear then as I got older I must have read this a hundred times. I can't stress enough how important this book is to me, my ultimate favourite.