{"product_id":"the-dreamers-a-novel","title":"The Dreamers: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUsed book in excellent condition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e EDITORS' CHOICE - \u003c\/b\u003eAn ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning.\"--Emily St. John Mandel, author of \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven \u003c\/i\u003e- \"A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril.\"--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eGlamour \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eReal Simple \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. They are dreaming heightened dreams--but of what?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in luminous prose, \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamers \u003c\/i\u003eis a breathtaking and beautiful novel, startling and provocative, about the possibilities contained within a human life--if only we are awakened to them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Walker's roving fictive eye by turns probes characters' innermost feelings and zooms out to coolly parse topics like reality versus delusion. . . . [It has] the perfect ambiguous frame for a tense and layered plot.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Walker's] gripping, provocative novel should come with a warning: may cause insomnia.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e (Book of the Week)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Powerful and moving . . . written with symphonic sweep.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"2019's first must-read novel . . . Alternately terrifying and moving . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamers \u003c\/i\u003eis overflowing with humanity.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eJezebel \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is an exquisite work of intimacy. Walker's sentences are smooth, emotionally arresting--of a true, ethereal beauty. . . . This book achieves [a] dazzling, aching humanity.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68082343903476,"sku":"9780812994162","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/1491\/7108\/files\/9780812994162-cover-47eb62cd628d72bf4e79.jpg?v=1794166101","url":"https:\/\/batsamore906.com\/products\/the-dreamers-a-novel","provider":"Bats Amore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}