Pariah - Softcover

Fingerman, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765365200 ISBN 13: 9780765365200

Publisher: Tor Books, 2011

Synopsis

A frightening, darkly comedic look at people surviving a zombie onslaught, from award-winning comics sensation and novelist Bob Fingerman.A global plague has nearly vanquished mankind; the citizenry of New York City is no exception. Eight million zombies. Shoulder to shoulder. Walking the streets, looking for their next meal of human flesh. The residents of an Upper East Side walkup have joined forces to keep themselves safe, the pageant of walking rot outside their windows a constant reminder of the their foreseeable fate. Trapped in the safety of their building, the tenants find themselves at each others€™ throats. When they spy a lone teenage girl who walks unharmed among the undead, impervious, their world opens up.

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About the Author

Bob Fingerman is the award-winning creator of such critically acclaimed graphic novels as Beg the Question, White Like She, and Recess Pieces.  In his novel, Bottomfeeder, Fingerman tossed away the typical gothic and romantic trappings of the vampire genre in favor of portraying the down-to-earth story of a working class Queens-bred vampire. In Recess Pieces, Fingerman whipped up a bloody maelstrom of adorable moppets and the living dead set within the confines of a school. In the uneasy romantic roman à clef Beg the Question he presented anxious young love in the streets of Brooklyn long before gentrification. His most recent graphic novel is From the Ashes, a “speculative memoir” set in the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York City. He will have a short story in the eagerly anticipated zombie anthology The Living Dead 2. He lives in New York City with his wife, Michele.

Review

“Fingerman is a brilliant satirist, artist and mind.” — Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park

“It doesn’t seem fair that Bob Fingerman gets to be such a funny, savvy, cool and smart writer who can also draw.  It gives him an advantage and I may need to have him assassinated.” — Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors

“Mr. Fingerman is a deeply talent, creative, and disturbed man.” — Max Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of World War Z

“The thinking man’s zombie novel.” — Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy

“If you’re thinking: ‘Not another zombie novel,’ this is definitely the book for you. Bob Fingerman’s Pariah is a testament to the versatility of zombie fiction. It is, quite simply, a work that will remind you why you fell in love with the genre in the first place.” — Robert Kirkman, author of The Walking Dead

“If you think there are no original twists left in the zombie genre, think again. With Pariah, Bob Fingerman crafts an exciting, fresh take on it, breathing much-needed new life into the undead. Pariah is a clever, compelling read.” — Brian Keene, The Rising

“As grim as it gets. Zombie fans looking for unrelenting grue and apocalyptic mayhem need look no further. But there’s a heart to this story, too, in the immaculately crafted characters—the survivors, the last of the human race, pushing themselves well past where the struggle for survival ends and there’s nothing left but to hold on and hope. A masterpiece of the zombie genre, for its realism and its courage to embrace the darkness.” — David Wellington, author of Monster Island and Vampire Zero

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0765365200
• ISBN 13: 9780765365200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352