Love in the Time of the Apocalypse - Hardcover

Blecha, Gregory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0595792642 ISBN 13: 9780595792641

Publisher: iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

The Amish have a casino on the Las Vegas Strip (no electricity, of course); the Mormon Underground rescues people from the clutches of the federal government; the Pentecostals have joined the Aryan Nation ("they were the only church that had guns"). The United States has devolved into a feudal society; epidemics rage unchecked due to the collapse of the health system; ecoterrorists are bent on destroying every landmark in the book 1,001 Must-See Sites in North America; the population is ruled by conspiracy theories. America during the apocalypse is, in short, only a bit more twisted than it is today. Love in the Time of the Apocalypse invites us to explore a twisted view of the End Times where love and a good sense of humor can triumph over millennia of prophecy.

About this title

From the Author

When Bryan returns from a vacation in Las Vegas, he finds he is a wanted man. Everyone is chasing him—cult leaders, eco-terrorists, and especially the Federal government—yet he cannot understand why anyone would be interested in him.
The pursuit takes him across the United States, where he is a witness to the devastating consequences of the collapse of society: plague cities, drugged child armies, religious cults battling against the Federal Department of Worship; a Bosch-like tableau.
While his goal is to elude his pursuers and return to his girlfriend (whom he has not seen since they parted company in Las Vegas) Bryan knows he must first discover his identity; and this discovery will lead him to understand his relationship to the man who has plunged the world into chaos, the antichrist.

About the Author

Greg's first novel, Love in the Time of the Apocalypse is loosely based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, Love in the Time of Cholera with a bit of Voltaire's Candide, Swift's Gulliver's Travels and a bit of Poe thrown in for added spice.Other authors who have most influenced the formation of this novel include Salmon Rushdie, Umberto Eco, and Sheri Holman. These authors are best known for their macabre themes and their exploration of magic realism. Magic realism is a literary style that interweaves unreal elements in a conventional environment.To learn more about the evolution of this novel, and other projects Greg is working on, please visit gregblecha.com or contact him at build_mail_adv("","greg","gregblecha","com","").

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0595792642
• ISBN 13: 9780595792641
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184