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The Rupture

The Rupture

The Rupture

Richard Conard

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Xlibris US
Año de edición:
2018
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781543470161
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The Rupture is about the crazy times we live in: current history. As well, it isabout the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and thegruesome carnage that is being planned in celebration of that incident; whatwas then the unimaginable mass murder which occurred on April 20, 1999.In this respect, it is also about the making of a monster.The story follows the lives of two families, the Mendez and the Phylers,from 1957 through 2009. Over the course of these 52 years their lives willoccasionally intersect as they experience the progression of American culturefrom differing perspectives. They will witness 1950s affluence, the FreeSpeech Movement, the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, theCivil Rights Movement, Wars and war protests, 9-11, Gay Rights, the strugglefor Gender equality, space exploration and unimaginable technologicaladvancements, love and hate, and the perils of those fluctuating tides andeconomic oscillations. They will witness the best and worst inclinations of theirspecies until they collide and intertwine on that fateful day, April 20, 2009.

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  • The Rupture
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    The Rupture is about the crazy times we live in: current history. As well, it isabout the tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre and thegruesome carnage that is being planned in celebration of that incident; whatwas then the unimaginable mass murder which occurred on April 20, 1999.In this respect, it is also about the making of a monster.The story follows the ...