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The Country of Ice Cream Star (2014)

de Sandra Newman

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML: In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller. In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies�a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known. A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent. .… (més)

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"...every grief be rain."

I was going to give this book five stars, but it fell into the usual self-indulgent trap of being far too long, too convoluted, with too many named characters. Also the end was unsatisfying. Perhaps there will be a sequel.

However.

I. Loved. The. Writing. It would seem the patois of the post apocalypse makes for very polarizing reading. Some people just can't get past it. They are trying too hard. Just read. I highlighted so many passages that were just like poetry, in a dystopian fashion.

"Her face be tired like regrets."
"We sit in this porcupine silence."
"This be a long and skinbone child, look like he made of elbows."

Poetry.
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MuggleBorn930 | Jul 11, 2021 |

Honest: I didn't finish. After a certain point, the weight of a white female writer using her version of ebonics to express the speech of non-white teens in a post apocalyptic world just became ... too much. A lot of the writing was beautiful and arresting. But I wonder if this book got in just under the wire of the current (and welcome) We Need Diverse Books movement. I don't think it would have been published, say, a year later. I started to ask myself why this curious tick of speech was really, really necessary to tell this particular story. And I came up with the conclusion that it wasn't, not really. Compared to books like Station Eleven or The Girl With All the Gifts, this book, in the end, seemed too much an oddity that ended up detracting from, not enhancing, the story she was trying to tell. (

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MaximusStripus | Jul 7, 2020 |

The invented dialect in this book made it a slog, but it was still entertaining. I'm not sure it was entertaining enough to be worth the slog, though. (

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tombrown | Feb 21, 2020 |

I can't remember a less enjoyable, more frustrating, less rewarding read. Based on reviews from people and publications I trust: I kept wanting to like it, wanting to give it a chance, and it kept letting me down until the very last moment. (

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rmxwl | Sep 8, 2019 |

I just couldn't. I'm sure that for some readers, the dialect that Newman employs to tell her story enhances the experience, but I just felt like I was plodding through. If this novel had caught me on another day, I might have felt differently. I may go back and give it another try and focus on the lyricism and how it pertains to the story, but for now it remains a 2-star book. (

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Speculative fiction will never save the world, but its ability to posit future scenarios has given it an unprecedented urgency. Those who complain that "tomorrow is so yesterday" would do well to read The Country of Ice Cream Star and consider next week.

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Nom de l'autor	Càrrec	Tipus d'autor	Obra?	Estat
Sandra Newman	—	autor primari	totes les edicions	calculat
Chong, Suet Yee	Dissenyador	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat

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My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star. My brother be Driver Eighteen Star, and my ghost brother Mo-Jacques Five Star, dead when I myself was only six years old. Still my heart is rain for him, my brother dead of posies little. -Chapter 1, My Trouble It's Beginning, Tober 2

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Fantasy. Fiction. Thriller. HTML:

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller.

In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a strange disease they call Posies�a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.

When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.

A postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

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