WORLD WAR Z (RATED A / 18+)

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WORLD WAR Z (RATED A / 18+)

Original Novel Wiki Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z

This article is about the novel. For the film based on the book, see World War Z (film).

World War Z
The cover of World War Z
Author(s)	Max Brooks
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror, post-apocalyptic fiction
Publisher	Crown
Publication date	September 12, 2006
Media type	Print (hardcover andpaperback), e-book,audiobook
Pages	342 pp
ISBN	0307346609
OCLC Number	65340967
Dewey Decimal	813/.6 22
LC Classification	PS3602.R6445 W67 2006
Preceded by	The Zombie Survival Guide

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a 2006 post-apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. It is a follow-up to his 2003 book The Zombie Survival Guide. Rather than a grand overview or narrative, World War Z is a collection of individual accounts in the form of first-person anecdote. Brooks plays the role of an agent of the United Nations Postwar Commission who published the report a decade after the Zombie War. The United Nations left out much of his work from the official report, choosing to focus on facts and figures from the war rather than the individual stories that form the bulk of Brooks' novel. The interviews chart a decade-long war against zombies from the view point of many different people of various nationalities. The personal accounts also describe the changing religious, geo-political, and environmental aftermath of the Zombie War.

World War Z was inspired by The Good War, an oral history of World War II by Studs Terkel; and by the zombie films of director George A. Romero. Brooks used World War Z to comment on social issues like government ineptitude and Americanisolationism, while also examining themes of survivalism and uncertainty. Critics have praised the novel for reinventing the zombie genre; the audiobook version, performed by a full cast including Alan Alda, Mark Hamill and John Turturro, won an Audie Award in 2007. A film based upon the book is in production, and is set for a December 2012 release.