The Heart Goes Last: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Cassandra Campbell, Mark Deakins
- Random House (Audio)
- 2015-09-29
Summary:
Margaret Atwood puts the human being heart to the best test within an utterly excellent new novel that’s as visionary while The Handmaid’s Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin.
Stan and Charmaine certainly are a wedded couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and public collapse. Job reduction has forced these to live in their car, leaving them susceptible to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their circumstance around-and fast. The about The Heart Runs Last: A Book Positron Task in the city of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is certainly unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean home to live in . for half a year out of the yr. On alternating weeks, citizens of Consilience must leave their homes and work as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of provider in the jail is completed, they are able to go back to their ‘civilian’ homes.
At first, this doesn’t seem like an excessive amount of a sacrifice to make to be able to have a roof over one’s mind and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their home during the weeks when she and Stan are in the jail, a series of troubling events unfolds, placing Stan’s life in danger. With each transferring day, Positron looks less just like a prayer answered and similar to a chilling prophecy fulfilled.