The Old Man and the Wasteland Nick Cole

The Old Man and the Wasteland  Nick Cole

Overview:

Forty years after the destruction of civilization... Man is reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One man’s most prized possession is Hemingway’s Classic ‘The Old Man and the Sea.’ With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a survivor of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse.

What follows is an incredible tale of survival and endurance.

One man must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway’s classic tale of man versus nature.

Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the Post-Apocalyptic American southwest.

In Wasteland, we follow The Old Man, which is the only name we are given for this character. He hails from a village skirting a highway, forty some odd years after a great war occurred, with many cities wiped out and humanity grasping desperately at the last shreds of civilization. Cue the familiar scenes of post-apocalypse America, irradiated cities, savage bands of survivors, empty desert landscapes. Through all this The Old Man scavenges for scraps just as Santiago scavenged for fish.

Written in a style that owes far more to Hemingway than it does McCarthy, Wasteland is a page-turner, albeit a quick one. The prose is simple, with small bursts of eloquent description only when is necessary. It really does read like a classic novel. Not to pick on McCarthy too much, but it is a refreshing contrast to The Road, in that the story is not a hopeless, meandering slog through futility, despair and death, all aimed at getting people to see how great the author is at writing. There is real story, real heart here.

Written in the Stars Carly Syms

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