Love in the Time of the Apocalypse
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Published: February 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780595792641
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Literary; Fiction / Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General
Genres: Fiction - Apocalypse
First sentence: We were staying at the Amish, so of course there was no air conditioning.
Description: Gregory Blecha's rare fusion of brilliance, heart, and humor comes to life in this satirical novel that defies genre by simultaneously managing to be a moving and unadulterated love story. 

The narrative style evokes Kim Stanley Robinson's futuristic sci-fi classic Pacific Edge and its they-could-be-my-neighbors realism, as well as the headlong rush of The Da Vinci Code's opening chapters (a pace maintained here from beginning to end). 

Yet Blecha's voice is unequivocally his own. He captures human flaws and failings with bull's-eye farce but also with benevolence and hope. And his vision of the strange bedfellows in the United States' future is uniquely provocative - I may be laughing, but I'm also stocking my underground bunker. 

Love in the Time of the Apocalypse is dedicated in part to the author's late brother Bryan - also the name of the novel's hapless yet intrepid, indefatigable, and surprising protagonist. I can only imagine that the real Bryan would be proud to live on in his trouble-prone and endearing namesake who, even as the world plummets toward disaster, keeps on believing in the love that conquers all - including the apocalypse.
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
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title: A Day in Las Vegas; pagenum: 10
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title: What Not to Say, and When Not to Say It; pagenum: 24
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title: Never Be Too Far From a Beautiful Woman; pagenum: 35
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title: Shirts and Skins; pagenum: 51
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title: If It Only Has One String, It’s Probably Not a Musical Instrumeent; pagenum: 71
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title: How to cheer up a Nihilist; pagenum: 81
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title: Bomb Crazy; pagenum: 95
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title: Proving I Love Her by How Many Women I Resist; pagenum: 115
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title: Knowing Where You Want to Be, During an Apocalypse; pagenum: 138
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title: A Day only Poe could Pen; pagenum: 153
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title: A Shower Doesn’t Clean Everything; pagenum: 163
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title: The Irresistible Demise; pagenum: 169
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title: The End of the World; pagenum: 171
label: Appendix