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From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road.

In the not-distant-enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable.

Lost Everything is a stunning novel about family and faith, what we are afraid may come to be, and how to wring hope from hopelessness.

Lost Everything is the winner of the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award.

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“If you think this sounds like Thomas Pynchon or John Calvin Batchelor territory, you would be correct. Slattery's approach walks a tightrope between absurdism and a kind of accentuated Byzantine realism.” ―The Believer on Liberation

“Liberation is a magical, riveting poetic story of a post-economic America…. Slattery's prose style is complex, poetic, visionary and reeling, a cross between Kerouac and Bradbury, salted with Steinbeck…. It's a heady stew, a road novel shot through with mysticism and a love of freedom that soars over the pages. This is a book to fall in love with.” ―Cory Doctorow

“Liberation combined the serious and the satirical in creating an unforgettable image of a future America beset by the collapse of the dollar and the specter of a new form of slavery.” ―Omnivoracious, naming Liberation Amazon.com's #1 SF&F book of 2008

“For Fans Of: the surreal odyssey of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man; Plan 9 from Outer Space.… For all its colorful characters and gonzo thrills, Slattery's debut is first and foremost a moving portrait of Wendell's griefs. A-” ―Entertainment Weekly on Spaceman Blues

“Slattery's debut is a kaleidoscopic celebration of the immigrant experience.… Pynchon crossed with Steinbeck, painted by Dalí: impossible to summarize, swinging from the surreal to the hyper-real, a brilliantly handled, tumultuous yarn.” ―Kirkus Reviews on Spaceman Blues

“Early reviews of Spaceman Blues threw around the names of Pynchon, Doctorow, and Dick as stylistic touchstones. But Slattery should really be considered alongside NYC homeboys like Lethem and Shteyngart, the former for his loving tweaks of vintage pulp, the latter for his sharp immigrant comedy.” ―The Village Voice

About the Author

Brian Francis Slattery was born and raised in upstate New York. He is an editor for the U.S. Institute of Peace and the New Haven Review. He is the author of the novels Spaceman Blues, Liberation and Lost Everything, and is also a musician. He lives near New Haven, CT.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books; First edition (April 10, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0765329123
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765329127
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches

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Brian Francis Slattery is the author of Spaceman Blues, Liberation, and Lost Everything, as well as a handful of short stories. He edits public-policy publications by day and is a musician by night; he is also an editor of the New Haven Review. He lives just outside of New Haven, CT with his family.

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ultra-dark apocalyptic future thriller

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2012

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Sailing up the Susquehanna River towards Harrisburg, filled with remorse for his actions and regret for not being there for his son Aaron, Sunny Jim searches for his offspring with little hope of finding him. He thinks about his sister Merry siting by a window in the family home with a gun wondering if she is alive and he wonders about Aline. Everywhere he and his companion Reverend Bauxite, whom he met in devastated Baltimore, look, they see destruction like the collapse of the Market Street Bridge and corpses. The violent storms brought America to its knees with pandemic destruction. Those with power cling to it at any cost while those without join a side or die immediately as civil war is heading everywhere.

No one including Sunny Jim escapes the militia. They are following him up the Susquehanna ravaging the land and killing or scripting anyone in their way. Sunny Jim and Reverend Bauxite steal supplies from the army. Whereas the two weary travelers continue their watery road trip, they see death wherever they go; the army brings death wherever they go. If they catch him and the Reverend they will kill them.

This ultra-dark apocalyptic future thriller is fast-paced with an America no longer on the Eve of Destruction (P. F. Sloan). There are three prime settings (The River, The Highway and The House) that rotate perspective but share in common the death of the Unites States. Although the names of characters seem too whimsical with all the doom and gloom and musical lyrics distracting, fans will appreciate this grim saga mindful of Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

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Confused and boring

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2013

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I debated for a while as to whether I should post a review of this book. Normally, I abide by the Thumperian Principle: If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothin' at all. Then I thought about all the other readers out there who could end up spending ten hard-earned dollars for this piece of crap, and I decided that I had to post a warning to all.

"Lost Everything" seems like a Family Guy joke book. You know when Brian, the pretentious dog, says he's going to write a novel or something and gets all up on his high horse? Yeah, this could be that book. Hey, it's even written by a guy named Brian. First of all, it's titled "Lost Everything," and it's every bit as depressing as it seems. Pointlessly depressing, I might add. Slattery spends pages and pages describing how sad everyone is now that they've lost everything. Boo hoo, look at all the remnants of society. And there's basically no plot.

The Kindle book has no chapter breaks, which makes it hard to navigate. Now, if that were the only thing hard to navigate about this book, I wouldn't care. But this novel is downright impenetrable. Don't be fooled by the seemingly interesting description, as I was. The whole "finding his lost son" business is just an excuse to have a description that might actually attract readers. The majority of the novel is a confused mash-up of random tales that take place in a post-apocalyptic US. Slattery never tells us what happened to destroy the nation or what the dreaded "Big One" that looms on the horizon is. The "Big One" also never hits.

Literally nothing of interest happens in this book... we follow dry character after dry character, who are written so sketchily that it's impossible to give a crap about any of them. Also, who the hell is narrating? The book jumps points of view, making it seem omniscient, but then randomly turns to the audience and starts speaking in first person. It's as though Slattery is narrating from the beyond, an almighty force playing God, which could work if he'd bother italicizing peoples' thoughts or putting quotation marks around their dialogue.

Basically, the one star I'm giving this book is for the descriptions. Slattery writes well; I'll give him that. The descriptions of scenery are beautiful. But that's all the book is: descriptions of scenery. The characters are wallpaper, and the concept - oh no, we've gone and destroyed the Earth and now we're all sad - is not original.

So please, unless you're a fan of confusing, pretentious, inscrutable wannabe lit fic, do not waste your money on this book. Go spend it on some nice $2.99 novels that actually have a point.

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Jeffrey Swystun

Apocalypse Coming

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2013

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Climate change has become very real. There are no seasons. Water rises. Disease and a civil war follow. This is the no-longer-United States that Slattery imagines and his descriptions of the country's devastation by natural and manmade forces are dense and haunting. Where once there were idyllic parks there are now thousands of refugees, a man with no legs makes due on a sawed-off church pew and three bicycle tires, and kids splashing in the river will soon be eliminated by an advancing army.

That is the rich back drop for a story that explores the resiliency of family and society while absurd vengeance and a looming storm threaten. The book is narrated by a mysterious stranger who years later has tracked down those once involved. Several times the action reminded me of Sherman's March from history and Apocalypse Now the movie that imagined the Vietnam War. A passage that took place in Millersburg was particularly reminiscent of the film. I struggled with the timeline a bit and it took some time to figure out the novel's flow but in the end I was rewarded and look forward to rereading Lost Everything.

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This is the end / Beautiful friend

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016

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Well, first of all, never mind about the grand quest northward in search of a son. It exists, but only in the sense that Willard's mission up the river exists in Apocalypse Now -- as a stepping off point into a fever dream. Lost Everything is a lament and a celebration of the end of humankind's hegemony over the earth; it's a prose poem, not an epic narrative. If the allusions to Thomas Pynchon (mentioned among the blurbs) are accurate, then the book Lost Everything most resembles is Mason & Dixon, in which the two British surveyors tunnel backwards not so much into the uncharted American West as into a fantastical dream of America. Slattery's book is recommended, if you like that kind of thing.

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