Zombies of Zone One
Zone One is a literary zombie novel by Colson Whitehead, set during the attempt to reclaim Manhattan after a plague. Its interest is in the survivors and whether survival is possible. Critics praised it for bringing literary fiction's methods to the genre, while some found its prose slow.1
When did it first appear?
2011Released 2011
What the sources say
Survivors called sweepers clear the remaining zombies from part of New York City to make it habitable again1
The story covers three days, with flashbacks to how the narrator, known as Mark Spitz, survived1
Reviewed as a literary novel that reworks a genre form1
A New York Times bestseller1
Whitehead has linked it to his adolescent love of horror and science fiction1
Sources
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Hungries
Kellis-Amberlee zombies
Shamblers
The fevered