Title: Rapture
First published: 1996
Description: "A wonderful, terrible new virus is stalking America: Angelism. It starts like the flu, turns your skin green, and ends...in wings."--BOOK JACKET.

"As the virus spreads, it creates both a new race of people who look like angels but certainly don't feel like them inside, and wing-free Pedestrians, who are left behind to wait and worry. And while the wing-inflicted play tag with the seagulls, the Peds grow envious, some even going for the jugular - either for harm's sake, or to contrive their own infection."--BOOK JACKET. "In this new world, who will fly and who will falter?"--BOOK JACKET.

"In David Sosnowski's Rapture, Zander Wiles is the first victim of Angelism to go public. But his status as celebrity quickly turns to pariah; his experiences at the hands of his disapproving parents and a fickle media machine turn the world's first flesh-and-blood Angel into a bitter recluse. Alone and grounded, Zander doesn't understand that the first step to flying is throwing yourself at the ground...and missing."--BOOK JACKET.

"Zander's life is in utter eclipse until he meets bestselling Angel therapist Cassie O'Connor. Using skates and tough love, Cassie teaches Zander how to face, squarely and deeply, just what he is. Along the way, she also teaches him how to fly."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Psychology, Fiction, Patients, Virus diseases, Angels, Fantasy fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Psychological fiction
LC classification: PS3569.O716 R36 1996