- Zombies, Virus diseases, Fiction, New York Times bestseller
Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act.
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Contemporary, cool, classical in form and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Atlas Contact, Anchor, Doubleday
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385535014
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include his 1999 debut *The Intuitionist*; *The Underground Railroad* (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and *The Nickel Boys*, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship. **Source**: [Colson Whitehead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colson_Whitehead) on Wikipedia.
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