Neena Gathering (A Post-Apocalyptic Novel)
Well the basis is the World War 3 -nuclear war apocalyptic novels that started in the s, and this book fits in well with that theme. Poe's Masque of the Red Death is all about such an attempt at escape.
We now come to our two descriptive not qualitative ratings: Realism does not include the cause of the collapse or apocalypse, but is otherwise an assessment of how close to today's world is the setting. Could you imagine your friends, or families living through the situation. Readability is not literary merits, but literally how quick and painless of a read. Realism is pretty straight forward. Other than the slightly futuristic nature of the events, the United States had already broken up into warring factions before the bombing started, it is very much concerned with life in the here and now.
As a homesteader, the author knows how much time is involved in getting things done, and the labor involved in running a small homestead. It has a calm and collected pacing, so while you are concerned as to what Neena will do, and how things will turn out, it isn't a page turner. It is literary enough that some basic knowledge of a few very well known classics is slightly helpful.
As I noted there are a number of sub-themes, but the author does not beat you over the head with mysto-symbolism that is impossible to untangle.
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You can choose to think through the implications as you wish. It is a literary 6. Posted by russell at 7: Newer Post Older Post Home. Passes out and remembers things from war-torn Baltimore. We see bark being stripped so it can be bartered away. This gives one a feeling of ease instead of the sense of unease the book should possibly be engendering. You can tell Neiman is a poet, however, because the language, as mentioned, is often poetic, and because poetry plays such a prominent role in the book. Ted introduces Neena to poetry, which she grows to enjoy.
Midway through the book, Aunt Maura and Neena take a trip to visit the Barterman to trade with him when Maura falls through a hole hidden in the ground, presumably by scavengers bent on evil. He comes to save Maura, but Ted shows up too. Ted is livid, and this is a pretty mystifying passage, I must say. Yet she trusts him over her own family. So Neena goes to live with the Barterman, whose name she finds out is Arden. However, Neena is able to see beyond that and comes to love this intelligent, nurturing individual, as well as his big dog.
This seems to be a case of Beauty and the Beast in a post-apocalyptic world, but it works. Nieman weaves a linguistic spell that makes it both beautiful and believable. The one disappointment from this union is the night they finally make love.
The description is rather limp and disappoints. Apparently, though, they are happy because Neena winds up pregnant. The book climaxes in the birth of their child, a girl named Rainelle. The final line of the book gives hope to the reader and the couple: I would not put this book at the top of my favorite dystopian novels Philip K. Dick takes top honors for me , but it is somewhat unique in its treatment of such fare, and as such, deserves to be read.
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One of her talents lies in character development, something Dick never really mastered. Another is her obvious love of language and its use. The book plodded at first, but once past those first pages and on into later chapters, the author successfully captures your attention and holds it. This is a really good post-apocalyptic story, set in West Virginia where everything has gone back in technology a couple of centuries due to extensive chemical warfare in the formerly heavily populated areas.
There are a few modern things from what people can scrounge out of the cities, and the United States has fractured into a number of independent kingdoms and plenty of areas ruled by no one. The main character, Neena, is growing up learning agriculture and herbalism from her aunt.
Neena Gathering (A Post-Apocalyptic Novel)
The writi This is a really good post-apocalyptic story, set in West Virginia where everything has gone back in technology a couple of centuries due to extensive chemical warfare in the formerly heavily populated areas. The writing is quite good, poetic, and the gathering of plants reflects a lot of the mood of the story. It often provides a calming mood, giving the book a more laid-back feel than it might otherwise have.
There's a lot of character development, and the story is focused on how conditions and the recent wars have shaped them. There are also a lot of references to literature, and I caught the meaning that Dante and Hardy convey that relates to the story but I missed others. I was also surprised, given the robot-thing depicted on the first edition cover, that the original Frankenstein story wasn't used. Its themes and ideas are directly applicable here.
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That first edition cover is really good, except for the dead plant scenery -- which doesn't reflect the setting of the book at all. Still, the images of Neena and that yellow robot guy in the background contributed to my appreciation of the story. And for some reason I love the term "metachemicals". It's used as kind of a catchall for the horrible destruction and damage that occurred in the wars, and is clearly a placeholder because the author doesn't want to focus on exactly how they worked. She wants to focus on the characters themselves, and I'm sure the use of metachemicals would bug some people who don't think it's "realistic", but I enjoyed the author's use of them.
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