Fiend - Hardcover

Stenson, Peter

3.56

3,593 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0770436315 ISBN 13: 9780770436315

Publisher: Crown Pub, 2013

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There’s more than one kind of monster.

When Chase Daniels first sees the little girl in umbrella socks tearing open the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As a longtime meth addict, he’s no stranger to horrifying, drug-fueled hallucinations.
But as he and his fellow junkies soon discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived.
The funny thing is, Chase’s life was over long before the apocalypse got here, his existence already reduced to a stinking basement apartment and a filthy mattress and an endless grind of buying and selling and using. He’s lied and cheated and stolen and broken his parents’ hearts a thousand times. And he threw away his only shot at sobriety a long time ago, when he chose the embrace of the drug over the woman he still loves.
And if your life’s already shattered beyond any normal hopes of redemption...well, maybe the end of the world is anopportunity. Maybe it’s a last chance for Chase to hit restart and become the man he once dreamed of being. Soon he’s fighting to reconnect with his lost love and dreaming of becoming her hero among civilization’s ruins.
But is salvation just another pipe dream?
Propelled by a blistering first-person voice and featuring a powerfully compelling antihero,Fiend is at once a riveting portrait of addiction, a pitch-black love story, and a meditation on hope, redemption, and delusion—not to mention one hell of a zombie novel.

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Review:

"Certain to invite comparisons to Hubert Selby and Cormac McCarthy...one scalding pressure cooker of a novel, and I advise you to buckle up and hold on tight because you're in for one hell of a ride. --Donald Ray Pollock, author of "The""Devil All the Time" and "Knockemstiff "

"This is the real meat. The last zombie novel you'll ever need."--Warren Ellis, New York Times bestselling author of "Gun Machine "and "Twisted Little Vein"

"Peter Stenson has done the near impossible in delivering a savage fire-storm of a page-turner while also enabling a hard and earnest look at addiction and love. I tore through Fiend with the crazed fervor of an addict, but like all great stories these characters lingered in my thoughts long after I turned the last beautiful and brutal page."--Alan Heathcock, National Magazine Award-winning author of "Volt"

"Peter Stenson is the bastard child of Cormac McCarthy and George Romero. In Fiend, he takes the reader on a dark joyride replete with junkies, zombies, and buckets of gore. Here is a novel that will jack your pulse and break your heart all at once."--Steve Almond, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Candyfreak "and "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life"

"Shockingly personal..."Shaun of the Dead" meets "Trainspotting."" "--"MTV.com
"Shambling, scabrous figures rotting from the inside out and driven by an insatiable hunger--there are more than a few similarities between meth heads and zombies. Stenson exploits all of them in Fiend." "--Entertainment Weekly
""[Stands] apart from the pack of zombie lit...Stenson has a sharp ear for language and a gift for dark humor." "--Denver Post
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"Best read of the year. Best zombie book, ever. Masterful illustration about how painful and overwhelming addiction can be...I want every book I read to enthrall me as consistently and emotionally as Fiend did." "--SF Signal
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"Certain to invite comparisons to Hubert Selby and Cormac McCarthy...one scalding pressure cooker of a novel, and I advise you to buckle up and hold on tight because you're in for one hell of a ride." --Donald Ray Pollock, author of "The""Devil All the Time" and "Knockemstiff "
"This is the real meat. The last zombie novel you'll ever need." --Warren Ellis, New York Times bestselling author of "Gun Machine "and "Twisted Little Vein"
"Peter Stenson has done the near impossible in delivering a savage fire-storm of a page-turner while also enabling a hard and earnest look at addiction and love. I tore through Fiend with the crazed fervor of an addict, but like all great stories these characters lingered in my thoughts long after I turned the last beautiful and brutal page." --Alan Heathcock, National Magazine Award-winning author of "Volt"
"Peter Stenson is the bastard child of Cormac McCarthy and George Romero. In Fiend, he takes the reader on a dark joyride replete with junkies, zombies, and buckets of gore. Here is a novel that will jack your pulse and break your heart all at once." --Steve Almond, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Candyfreak "and "Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life"
Shockingly personal...Shaun of the Dead meets Trainspotting. MTV.com
Shambling, scabrous figures rotting from the inside out and driven by an insatiable hunger there are more than a few similarities between meth heads and zombies. Stenson exploits all of them inFiend. Entertainment Weekly
[Stands] apart from the pack of zombie lit...Stenson has a sharp ear for language and a gift for dark humor. Denver Post

Best read of the year. Best zombie book, ever. Masterful illustration about how painful and overwhelming addiction can be...I want every book I read to enthrall me as consistently and emotionally as Fiend did. SF Signal

Certain to invite comparisons to Hubert Selby and Cormac McCarthy one scalding pressure cooker of a novel, and I advise you to buckle up and hold on tight because you're in for one hell of a ride. Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff
This is the real meat. The last zombie novel you'll ever need. Warren Ellis, New York Times bestselling author of Gun Machine and Twisted Little Vein
Peter Stenson has done the near impossible in delivering a savage fire-storm of a page-turner while also enabling a hard and earnest look at addiction and love. I tore through Fiend with the crazed fervor of an addict, but like all great stories these characters lingered in my thoughts long after I turned the last beautiful and brutal page. Alan Heathcock, National Magazine Award-winning author of Volt

Peter Stenson is the bastard child of Cormac McCarthy and George Romero. In Fiend, he takes the reader on a dark joyride replete with junkies, zombies, and buckets of gore. Here is a novel that will jack your pulse and break your heart all at once. Steve Almond, New York Times bestselling author of Candyfreak and Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
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Book Description:

Breaking Bad meets Night of the Living Dead in this manically energetic, stunningly written debut that pits a crystal meth addict against the zombie apocalypse.

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