The Leftovers (Paperback)

from queencersei

What would happen to the world if the biblical Rapture were to suddenly happen, and millions of people around the world were to simply vanish? What if the millions of disappeared represented every type of religion, country, age and personality? What if you truly believed in the Rapture, but were ...

from beentsy

This was a bit of slow starter for me but then all of a sudden I found myself very, very involved in the story and the characters. All the ways that human beings would deal or would not deal with the sudden disappearance of millions of people. Some of the endings felt a bit pat and perfect, b...

from BeckyJG

So, the Rapture. It's been predicted a bunch of times throughout Christian history, most recently--and very spectacularly, with radio spots and billboards in Spanish and English all over the country--by California radio evangelist Harold Camping, who predicted that most of us would be left behind...

from mazeway

Not a whole lot happens, but it happens to a whole lot of people. The Rapture, or something very like it, has occurred, but the folks taken weren't the ones everyone expected. It seems to have been a very random culling. We follow at least five characters closely and many more as second-tier char...

from mrstreme

Imagine you're hanging out with a friend or eating dinner with your family - and POOF! They were gone. In Tom Perrotta's latest book, The Leftovers, he examines this sudden departure of people around the world, who literally disappeared into thin air, and the effects of their disappearance on the...