Lucky Day
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- 8,99 €
Descrição da editora
A statistics professor tries to survive a series of gruesome and impossibly unlikely disasters linked to a supernaturally lucky Vegas casino, while dealing with her own erasure as a bisexual, in this chilling and quick-witted horror novel.
What's happening in Vegas isn't staying there...
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred—the Low-Probability Event. Eight million killed in a single day, each of them in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by parade balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, God is dead, and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera's doorstep, investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino, he needs her help to prove the casino's role in the LPE. And offers Vera one last chance to make sense of an unlikely world.
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Tingle (Bury Your Gays) wows with an absurdist existential horror novel that is as funny as it is unexpectedly devastating, complex, and challenging. Probability expert Vera Norrie's life is turned upside down when her book release party is destroyed by a worldwide eruption of surreal, apocalyptic violence. Surviving what becomes known as the Low-Probability Event leaves her apathetic and traumatized, but things start to change when federal agent Jonah Layne shows up at her door. Vera's previous investigations into an uncommonly lucky casino might hold the answers everybody's looking for as to why the outbreak occurred. Can she connect the dots in time to save the world and does she care enough to try? Tingle uses the tragic and bizarre to examine a deeper and never more relevant theme about how to create a meaningful life during difficult times. The comedic carnage might overwhelm a lesser novel, but Tingle's fast-paced plot makes it work, and his ability to effectively wield the many disparate elements at play here impresses. Combining irreverent moments of surreality with an earnest message about finding hope even in the face of brutality, this is Tingle's best yet.
