{"product_id":"world-war-z-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"World War Z (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBROOKS, Max.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eWorld War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full deep red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and cover artwork. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMax Brooks (b. 1972) — the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, a fact that provides a biographical counterpoint of some irony to his literary reputation as the most rigorous and forensic chronicler of the zombie apocalypse — worked as a writer for \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night Live\u003c\/em\u003e before publishing \u003cem\u003eThe Zombie Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e in 2003, a deadpan handbook for the undead uprising presented with the earnest precision of a genuine survival manual. \u003cem\u003eWorld War Z\u003c\/em\u003e, published three years later, applied the same commitment to verisimilitude to a very different form: the oral history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe conceit of the novel is that the zombie war is over. Humanity survived, though barely and at catastrophic cost, and a United Nations investigator has spent years travelling the world collecting first-hand testimonies from survivors. The accounts come from a Chinese doctor who treated Patient Zero in a remote village, a US Army officer who witnessed the catastrophic failure of a military response designed for conventional warfare, a blind Japanese man who walked across his country to survive, an astronaut who watched the apocalypse unfold from the International Space Station, a feral child who survived alone in the forest for years. Each voice is distinct, each account is internally consistent, and together they construct a portrait of civilisational collapse and partial recovery that reads with the texture of authentic documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBrooks's achievement was to use the zombie pandemic as a vehicle for a genuinely serious examination of geopolitics, military doctrine, government failure, mass psychology, and the social conditions that determine who survives catastrophe and who does not. The novel anticipates, with uncomfortable precision, many of the dynamics that the COVID-19 pandemic would make familiar to a global audience fourteen years after its publication. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity, Brooks writes through his narrator, and the interviews that follow leave the reader with no doubt that the margin was razor-thin and the losses were beyond measure. The 2013 film adaptation starring Brad Pitt retained the title and the basic premise and very little else; the novel remains untouched by it. The book won the Quill Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror in 2007.\u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"inline-flex\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFine. \u003c\/strong\u003ePresenting as new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. 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