Zero zone a novel

"Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site o...

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Main Author: O'Connor, Scott (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2020.
Edition:First hardcover edition.
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Summary:"Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero Zone, they barricade themselves in the installation until authorities are forced to intervene. That violent showdown becomes a media sensation, following Jess wherever she goes. Devastated by the attack and the distortion of her art, Jess retreats from the world. Unable to work, Jess unravels mentally and emotionally, plagued by a nagging uncertainty as to the level of her responsibility for what happened. Three years later, a survivor from Zero Zone comes looking for Jess, who must move past her self imposed isolation to face down her fears and recover her art from a violent cult intent of making it their own."--
Physical Description:310 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781640093737
1640093737
Author Notes:SCOTT O'CONNOR is the author of A Perfect Universe: Ten Stories and the novels Half World and Untouchable , which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction. His stories have been short-listed for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in The Best American Short Stories .