Lot's Journal
Paperback, 365 pages
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Ashland, Oregon
The trees are blooming in Lithia Park. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, but a mysterious disease has suddenly wiped out nearly all of the world’s human beings. Roberta Neville is alone. She surrounds herself with animal companions as she stoically sets about ridding the town of corpses.
Two thousand miles away, in Huntsville, Tennessee, a schizophrenic trial lawyer named John Lot sets out in a pickup camper on a quest to find other survivors. Fueled by religious zealotry, he believes that God has spared him from the Calamity because of his own holiness, and he is convinced that any survivors he finds will share his extreme religious convictions. At last he encounters Roberta. How will he cope with a strong woman with opinions of her own?
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In his novel Lot’s Journal, Heiland Hoff presents a fascinating literary character in John Lot. Narrating in the pages of a quirky, frenetic and didactic journal, Lot often surprises the reader, as he slips increasingly into the alternate reality of his mental illness. He is by turns heroic and enterprising, pathetic and obnoxious. In the end, one feels compassion for him in spite of his crude, intolerant religiosity.
He is one of the very few survivors of “the Calamity,” a disease (like that in George Stewart’s Earth Abides) that suddenly wipes out nearly all of the human population. Finding himself alone in an America apparently devoid of other living humans, Lot makes it his... More >
He is one of the very few survivors of “the Calamity,” a disease (like that in George Stewart’s Earth Abides) that suddenly wipes out nearly all of the human population. Finding himself alone in an America apparently devoid of other living humans, Lot makes it his... More >
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