The age
Subtitle: a novel
By: Nancy Lee
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780771052521
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fiction; Family relationships; Terrorism; Quakers
Description: "Set in Vancouver in 1984 as Soviet warships swarm the Atlantic, The Age tells the story of Gerry, a troubled teenager whose life is suddenly and strangely catapulted into adulthood. Confronted by her mother's newest relationship, confusion about her father's abandonment, and anxieties about a looming nuclear incident, Gerry finds a kind of belonging with a group of misfits planning a subversive protest at the city's upcoming peace march, but her fascination with their leader and her struggle with sexual identity create a rift between Gerry and her best friend, Ian. Bolstered by her grandfather, an eccentric news anchor in the throes of a bitter divorce, Gerry tries to put herself at the centre of the group's violent plot. As the days leading up to the rally accelerate, Gerry finds herself escaping into a post-nuclear dystopia of her own creation. Her real life and fantasy life alternate until a collision of events and consequences forces her towards life or death decisions in both worlds"--Publisher.