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Le Temps du Twist

by Joël Houssin (2014)

About this book

"En cette sinistre fin de XXIe siècle, où l'alcoolisme chronique est devenu l'unique rempart aux innombrables virus contaminant l'atmosphère, l'avenir se conjugue au passé. Aussi, pour son seizième anniversaire, Antonin Hofa a-t-il prévu deux choses : goûter - enfin ! - aux joies du sexe, et se suicider. Dans l'ordre. Ses amis du club des taudis y vont de leurs cadeaux, mais c'est d'un loup-garou fan de Led Zeppelin qu'il reçoit le plus inattendu : une Buick Electra à voyager dans le temps, qui entraîne toute la bande dans le Londres des années 70. Du moins en apparence, car dans ce Londres livré à des hippies sanguinaires et aux virus de la Nouvelle Église, le grand Led Zeppelin ne semble pas promis à son fabuleux destin..."--cover. "In this sinister end of the twenty-first century, when chronic alcoholism became the sole bulwark against the countless viruses contaminating the atmosphere, the future becomes the past. Also, for his sixteenth birthday, Antonin Hofa has two things planned: sex and suicide, in that order. His friends gather with gifts, but it's a werewolf fan of Led Zeppelin who gives him the most unexpected: a time-traveling Buick Electra that takes the whole group to 1970s London. Or at least so it appears, for in a London free of bloodthirsty hippies and the virus of the New Church, the great Led Zeppelin does not seem to be what was promised..."--cataloger's summary

Setting / LocationLondon & UK
Story EraContemporary / Future
Protagonist / CoreLe Temps du Twist Lead Character

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