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A Novel Alden Bell Holt August 2010
For twenty-five years, civilization has survived in meager enclaves, guarded against a plague of the dead. Temple wanders this blighted landscape, keeping to herself and keeping her demons inside her heart. She can't remember a time before the zombies, but she does remember an old man who took her in and the younger brother she cared for until the tragedy that set her on a personal journey toward redemption. Moving back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond, Temple must decide where ultimately to make a home and find the salvation she seeks.
Winner for the single best review line ever: "Twilight is to The Reapers Are the Angels as Step Up 3D is to Avatar." —Mindy Oja, from the blog Reading for Sanity
The Reapers Are the Angels: The Movie Director Chris Milk has signed on with Likely Story Productions and Annapurna Pictures to direct the movie based on The Reapers Are the Angels. The film will feature music from the album Rome by Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi (featuring Jack White and Norah Jones). Music videos for the songs on the album feature images from the book. You can find them here:
"3 Dreams of Black" (requires Google Chrome to view)
Other Media
◄ Hear a Podcast Discussion about the Book from a Catholic Perspective ►
◄ An Interview with the Author from Skiffy and Fanty ►
◄ An Interview with the Author from If You're Just Joining Us ►
◄ Purchase The Reapers Are the Angels ►
"The Reapers Are the Angels is soaked in all the viscera, bile and blood that any horror fan could desire, the effluvia rendered in a high Southern Gothic style as redolent of rotting magnolia as anything written by William Faulkner or Cormac McCarthy. In The Reapers Are the Angels Alden Bell has managed something improbable and striking: a disconcertingly beautiful tale of zombie apocalypse." —Charlie Huston, author of Sleepless
"The Reapers Are the Angels is a knockout, a fresh take on the zombie novel, with a heroine you can't help but root for as she braves the land of the living dead and the dead living, pursued by a foe far more dangerous than flesh-eaters and with the beacon of redemption flickering ahead. Alden Bell will snatch your attention and keep it until long after you close this book. Somewhere, George A. Romero is smiling. And, hopefully, warming up his camera." —Tom Franklin, author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech
"Alden Bell provides an astonishing twist on the southern gothic: like Flannery O'Connor with zombies." —Michael Gruber, author of The Book of Air and Shadows
And for those of you who don't actually like to read whole books, here's a word cloud for Reapers--a graphical representation of all the most prominent words in the book. The bigger the word, the more frequent its usage. (Generated by this nifty site: Wordle)
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