New York Times Bestseller: A young girl’s visions offer the last hope in a postapocalyptic wasteland in this “grand and disturbing adventure” (Dean Koontz).A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Swan is a nine-year-old Idaho girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom—something far wider than the narrow scope of her own beleaguered … the narrow scope of her own beleaguered life. In a blinding flash, nuclear bombs annihilate civilization, leaving only a few buried survivors to crawl onto a scorched landscape that was once America.
In Manhattan, a homeless woman stumbles from the sewers, guided by the prophecies of a mysterious amulet, and pursued by something wicked; on Idaho’s Blue Dome Mountain, an orphaned boy falls under the influence of depraved survivalists and discovers the value of a killer instinct; and amid the devastating dust storms on the Great Plains of Nebraska, Swan forms a heart-and-soul bond with an unlikely new companion. Soon they will cross paths. But only Swan knows that they must endure more than just a trek across an irradiated country of mutated animals, starvation, madmen, and wasteland warriors.
Swan’s visions tell of a coming malevolent force. It’s a shape-shifting embodiment of the apocalypse, and of all that is evil and despairing. And it’s hell-bent on destroying the last hope of goodness and purity in the world. Swan is that hope. Now, she must fight not only for her own survival, but for that of all mankind.
A winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, Swan Song has become a modern classic, called “a chilling vision that keeps you turning pages to the shocking end” by John Saul and “a long, satisfying look at hell and salvation” by Publishers Weekly.
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Great read!
I have read Swan Song three times. Unusual for me as there are so many choices, but I really love this book. If you read The Stand, this is a similar theme, but in my opinion, better.
I read this book when I was 18, and I am now 44. Too this day it remains my all time favorite book ever. I’ve never had someone read this and be disappointed. It is now one of my daughters favorite books. It’s timeless. I’ve read it many times.
This book was amazing. This is one of my few keeper books that I reread every few years. One of my all time favorites. Swan is a complex person and it was great to read her journey. She brings hope to a dead world. The battle between good and evil was well done.
This is one of my two favorite books of all time and I read it when it came out in the 70s
One of my favorite books! This is the first book that I ever read by this author & I love it! I have held onto it since the 80s & definitely recommend reading it!
There are only a few favorite books I have read over and over again and Swan Song is one of them. I have read this book many times over the years and each time I can’t put the book down until I read the last word, last page. This whole novel is beyond awesome and it sucks you in til the very end. Incredible author…..
Best SHTF book of its time. One of my favorite authors. I revisit this story throughout the years. It’s still thrilling. Don’t miss it.
I would very highly recommend Swan Song to anyone who enjoys end of the world stories, the strength, struggle, endurance of those left behind. I have owned this book for many years, it’s one of my top, very favorite books. I read it again at least once maybe twice a year, love it every time! Robert McCammon is 1 of my very favorite authors, …
Join a cast of people who seem normal, yet end up becoming something so much more as they journey across a post-apocalyptic world. World War III finally happens as the people of the world had been poised for years to start it. Swan and her mother, Josh, Sister Creep, Ronald, Col. Macklin and others experience nuclear bombs exploding all around …
A fantastic book comparable to Steven King’s ‘The Stand’.
So, I finally finished Swan Song, the 960 page post apocalyptic novel by Robert McCammon. It received all sorts of glowing reviews, which made me check it out. But it left me with mixed feelings, and not a real desire to recommend it to anyone. It’s bleak, especially so since the whole world has been ravaged by a nuclear firestorm. It starts out …
One book, one novel, a great read.
A must read, can’t put it down and I’ve read it three times since 2005.
Love, love love this author… more please
Read this book many years ago and re-read occasionally because I enjoyed it so much.
Love all his books
While derivative of King’s “The Stand”, still an entertaining and dark tale of it’s own, with a more human monster.
One of my favorite books! The theme may not be original but love the characters!
This is my most favourite stand alone novel. Infinitely better than The Stand.