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About The Book
The aged robot Sapien is the recent victim of a debilitating accident. The socially acceptable thing to do in robot culture is deactivate, but Sapien is not ready to end his life. Instead he orders spare parts for himself and rents a remote beach house in order to repair and ponder why he wants to go on. While there, he becomes obsessed with his landlords, the peculiar robot family living on the rambling estate perched at the top of the cliff. He is convinced that the elusive and enigmatic Beachstone, the head of the family, holds the answers to his existential quandary. Invoking the works of the great supernatural and science fiction writers Mary Shelley, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick, Barren Cove is a gothic tale in an unusual future.
Product Details
- Publisher: Emily Bestler Books (May 16, 2017)
- Length: 224 pages
- ISBN13: 9781476797861
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Raves and Reviews
"Providing further evidence of the futility of genre labels, BARREN COVE is a thoughtful and affecting family drama that just happens to be about robots. Winter’s vision of a machine-ruled dystopia is a quiet country manor where a few mechanical people search for meaning in the mysteries of their programming. An unsettling portrait of humanity as seen through the eyes of its creations."
– Isaac Marion, New York Times bestselling author of WARM BODIES and THE LIVING
“BARREN COVE is a touching and funny and skillfully written novel and an original take on science fiction. I'm not a great fan of this genre, but I can see, with this one book, how Mr. Winter could make me one. The writing is clean and highly readable; the characters are believable, despite being robots; the dialog is ear-perfect, and the plot never sags or lets up for a minute. I had a great time reading it.”
– Stephen Dixon, National Book Award nominated author of FROG and INTERSTATE
“A meticulously imagined story that reads like The Wasp Factory soldered into Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The pages really skittered by. Genuinely literary science fiction.”
– Natasha Pulley, author of the internationally bestselling THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET
– Stephen King, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
– Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
"An absolute astonishment."
– Peter Straub, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
"Wildly, audaciously original."
– James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
"A delight."
– Alice Sebold, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
"Marvelous."
– The Washington Post, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
– The Los Angeles Times, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
– Stephen Dixon, author of and National Book Award finalist for FROG, on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
– Booklist (starred review), on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
"Brilliant."
– Library Journal (starred review), on THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH
“Weaves a uniquely dreamy spell, and a lingering one. Lyrical, unexpected, and curiously affecting…a story that lodges uneasily in the heart and mind.”
– Kirkus Reviews
“A quietly brilliant look at what it means to be human. This deserves to be a classic.”
– Booklist (starred review)
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