Ebook {Epub PDF} Wonderblood by Julia Whicker

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. edit data. Julia Whicker is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she won both the prestigious Capote Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship. She’s had her poetry published in the Iowa Review, Word Riot and The Millions, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A version of the first chapter of Wonderblood was published in the literary journal, Unstuck.3/5.  · Julia Whicker’s debut novel, Wonderblood, is set years from now in a barren, disease-ravaged United States that bears more resemblance to Europe of the Middle Ages than a Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

Julia Whicker is an American author whose debut novel hit the bookstores in Wonderblood takes readers to a post-apocalyptic United States that closely resembles the Mad Max Landscape. A wife and a mother, Whicker has had the makings of a published author since she was really young. Whicker first experimented with poetry. Wonderblood is a difficult, fascinating book, spectacular in the literal sense: blood rains from the sky, battles seethe, grotesque prophetesses are shut up in fabulist towers, queens build lapis lazuli chambers and leisurely golf while the world burns (based on the book's publication schedule, Whicker called that one long in advance). In places, its imagery is dazzlingly incandescent. Wonderblood Julia Whicker. Thu pm Post a comment Favorite This. In the apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the United States, warring factions compete for control of the land in.

Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth. Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's fascinating literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. edit data. Julia Whicker is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she won both the prestigious Capote Fellowship and the Teaching-Writing Fellowship. She’s had her poetry published in the Iowa Review, Word Riot and The Millions, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A version of the first chapter of Wonderblood was published in the literary journal, Unstuck. Wonderblood. Julia Whicker. Thu pm Post a comment Favorite This. In the apocalyptic wasteland that used to be the United States, warring factions compete for control of the land.