Last Last Chance, (Paperback)

from bookchickdi

With the news filled with talk of the swine flu, Fiona Maazel's debut novel Last Last Chance, and its storyline of the release of a superplague, seems prescient. Lucy is a thirty-year-old drug addict with six failed rehab stints behind her. Her mother is a wealthy business owner and crack addict,...

from

I was actually somewhat leery of this book based on the description. It felt as if there would be too much going on for it to ever come together into a meaningful whole. Norse mythology, drug addiction, a super plague, radical fundamentalism and teenage angst. A lot of quirky characters that coul...

from dmcco01

Maazel's ambitious work blends addiction, plague, Norse mythology, reincarnation, birth, death and redemption into a tale of one woman's struggle to learn how to live. The novel is fascinating and the main character grows into someone the reader cares about as the story unfolds. My only criticism...

from lenoreva

I requested this tragicomedy from the LibraryThing ER program because it promised to be bizarre and apocalyptic - an irresistible combination. Lucy narrates in first person, and most of the crazy comes from seeing the world through her unfocused eyes, though most of the other characters know how ...

from LinguaphileSlade

Fiona Maazel's 'Last Last Chance' deals primarily with broken people and broken families in a society that is turning on itself. The foremost catalyst for all the shattering taking place in the main characters' family is drug addiction; wonderfully, Maazel manages to write in such a way that I my...