Swan Song Robert Mccammon

Swan song by robert mccammon is an epic post apocalyptic novel with a similar scenario to stephen king s dark and omnipresent the stand.

Swan song robert mccammon. Colliding worlds epidemics vampires aliens zombies writers just love ending the world and we just love reading about how it all goes down everyone dies except us or those characters who are our surrogates. In robert mccammon s swan song it s world war lll and a thermo nuclear death for billions. Swan song by robert mccammon is an epic post apocalyptic novel with a similar scenario to stephen king s dark and omnipresent the stand. Swan song by robert mccammon every now and then you come across a book where it seems that the complexities of life have been disassembled from reality and reformed within the pages and text.

Swan song is a 1987 horror novel by american novelist robert r. A story that sometimes in its simplicity captures the moving parts and varying angles of spirituality psychology physiology and sociology like a. View all available formats editions. Paperback mass market paperback 10 99.

New york times bestselling author robert mccammon s prescient and shocking john saul. By robert mccammon editorial reviews. Swan song won the 1987 bram stoker award tied with misery. His 1989 novel swan song had been among the list of 100 of america s favorite books.

Mccammon s most popular book is swan song. In the final results swan song came in at 94. Mccammon has 115 books on goodreads with 411376 ratings. Robert mccammon was a co presenter with ali wentworth on the grand finale of the pbs show the great american read.

Mccammon writes about swan song i ve always thought that any kind of film based on a book or short story can be a fascinating experience for the author not necessarily because the film is good or bad but because it s a reflection of how other people visualize the author s words. In the aftermath of a nuclear war between america and russia assorted survivors struggle to live among the ruins while a sinister demonic man stalks the land. This book by the excellent storyteller robert mccammon resembles king s classic novel in several respects but mccammon sticks with the classic nuclear annihilation scenario in swan song a book written as the cold war was winding down in the late 1980 s swan song starts out on a bleak note and quickly goes down hill from there. It is a work of post apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind.