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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- The most confounding thing in this story is also the most compelling - the idea that by some strange mutation to human physiology, people are able to ‘eat’ by watching film footage. I know!
The planet has undergone some all encompassing catastrophe that has rendered all plant and animal food sources, and even the rain, contaminated.
Now you might be thinking that reading something like this is not what you want to be doing during a global pandemic. On the contrary, I found it to be wonderfully escapist, reading how the leaders of the New Time managed the populace through spin and agenda. Allington has created a really interesting cast of characters coping with change and rebellion. Solidarity through literature! Craig Kirchner
P.S. In his acknowledgments Allington references the cover image: "The cover of Rise & Shine features Hilma af Klint's painting Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, which she painted in 1915 in Sweden". I mention this only because, with its play of the positive, negative and complementary within the whole, it too is strangely compelling.
Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them - literally. In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Shine. Yet this war, far from representing their doom, is their means of survival. For their leaders have found the key to life when crops, livestock, and the very future have been blighted - a key that turns on each citizen being moved by human suffering. Yet is this small hope, this compassion, enough to sustain them against the despair born of all the friends they've lost, all the experiences they'll never know? Or must they succumb to, or even embrace, darker desires?
Rise & Shine is a tale that speaks to our troubled times, a Kafkaesque fable of hope from the imagination of Miles Franklin nominee Patrick Allington.
'You never knew fiction could do this.' Jane Rawson, author of From the Wreck
'A novel of rare visionary brilliance, Rise & Shine blew me away.' Bram Presser, author of The Book of Dirt
'Fiercely imaginative and astonishingly written.' Robbie Arnott, author of Flames and The Rain Heron
By:
Patrick Allington Imprint: Scribe Publications Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 137mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 234g ISBN:9781925849769 ISBN 10: 1925849767 Pages: 240 Publication Date:02 June 2020 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Patrick Allington is a writer, critic, editor, and academic. His fiction includes the novel Figurehead, which was longlisted for the 2010 Miles Franklin award, as well as short fiction published in Meanjin, Griffith Review, The Big Issue, and elsewhere. Patrick is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Flinders University.
Reviews for Rise & Shine
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- The most confounding thing in this story is also the most compelling - the idea that by some strange mutation to human physiology, people are able to ‘eat’ by watching film footage. I know!
The planet has undergone some all encompassing catastrophe that has rendered all plant and animal food sources, and even the rain, contaminated.
Now you might be thinking that reading something like this is not what you want to be doing during a global pandemic. On the contrary, I found it to be wonderfully escapist, reading how the leaders of the New Time managed the populace through spin and agenda. Allington has created a really interesting cast of characters coping with change and rebellion. Solidarity through literature! Craig Kirchner
P.S. In his acknowledgments Allington references the cover image: "The cover of Rise & Shine features Hilma af Klint's painting Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, which she painted in 1915 in Sweden". I mention this only because, with its play of the positive, negative and complementary within the whole, it too is strangely compelling.
