{"subjects": ["Zombies", "Virus diseases", "Fiction", "New York Times bestseller", "nyt:hardcover_fiction=2011-10-29", "Survival", "Viruses", "Fiction, horror", "New york (n.y.), fiction", "New York Times reviewed", "Large type books", "Epidemics"], "key": "/works/OL15917217W", "title": "Zone One", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL218462A"}}, {"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL9117427A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [6935551, 7241541, 10690882, 12585208], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/zone-one-by-colson-whitehead-book-review.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Mark Spitz and his squad of three \"sweepers\" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as \"stragglers\": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act."}, "subject_places": ["Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)", "New York (State)", "New York", "Manhattan"], "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2011-07-25T16:02:44.023632"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-01-18T20:56:46.832858"}}