Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Product Information

Brilliantly told… compelling… Hastings has cleverly woven the story together from all sides describing them in dramatic, almost hour by hour detail… this is a scary book. Hastings sees little evidence that today’s leaders understand each other any better than they did in 1962” - Sunday Times

Ankeny, Jason. "The Abyss [Original Score]". AllMusic. Archived from the original on September 4, 2015 . Retrieved February 1, 2014. What are the abysses that a girl, stunned by the mysteries of her family and the world, peers into? Her apartment is a jungle, her home a supermarket, her country a fog-enclosed mountain range obscuring the cliffs. Readers too fall, stunned, into Pilar Quintana’s abyss.” — HÉCTOR ABADThings take a turn for the worse when Claudia's paternal aunt marries a man much younger than her, and then he and Claudia's mother have, or at least are suspected by their partners to have had, an affair. The brother-in-law vanishes from the scene (Claudia suspects her father may have threatened him or worse) and Claudia's mother settles into depression, her new literary love the story of starlets who died young and in mysterious circumstances (which, unlike the conspiracy theorists, she assumes is suicide in each case): This book takes place in Colombia in (I think) the 1980's. It's written in first person and the POV is of an eight year old girl, but but subject of the book is really the girl's mother. Abyssal Space is not a dimension in a way that we understand the term from examples such as Zanaris or Freneskae. Rather, it is the name we have given the dimension that exists between other more developed dimensions - the ‘glue’ that keeps each dimension together yet separate, if you will. I honestly can't give this book enough praise. I could barely put it down but then I was fearful of what I might read next. It is certainly disturbing.

The way how everything is portrayed through Claudia's eyes hold both a sense of naivety and how she sees traumatic events. This book definitely explores adult problems/issues from a child's perspective, which alot of people tend to underestimate. Once people become mature and grow older, we lose much of our memories of how we saw adult issues of the world from a child's perspective and so this affects the way how we, as adults, them see children. We see them as not being able to comprehend problems of older people, but it's not that they don't understand, they just have a different way of dping so. This book, however, allowed me to kindle memories of how I percieved traumatic events as a child, as it did for many others. I have a new author to follow…Pilar Quintana from Colombia, South America. What a beautiful job she did with this book, using bold, terse phraseology to build her characters and convey the story’s suspense. This is the story of a young girl (Claudia) growing up with a hardworking (read absent) father and a mother who obsesses over celebrity magazines all day long and tends to her many plants. Everything is good in Claudia’s life until her mother meets, and falls for, the captivating young man who has just married Claudia’s older aunt (her father’s sister). To try to mend their relationship, Claudia’s father finds a place for the family to stay in the nearby mountains of Cali. The mountains are glorious, but there is a dark side…an abyss that would be easy for Claudia or her mother to fall into especially as fog frequently envelopes the mountains and houses. Fears of this literal abyss grow ever greater for Claudia as her mother continues to fight depression and as stories proliferate of neighbors and friends who have committed suicide (i.e. fallen into a figurative abyss). Scariest for me was how Claudia acted with regard to her cherished doll, Penelope, in light of the abyss. I can’t say anything more than that without giving away what, for me, was the best moment in the story.Both scientists have produced stylish, eloquent works, with Widder’s being the more personal, beginning with her account of an adolescent illness that nearly left her blind and then moving to her current position as a world expert on underwater light communication. “My obsession with bioluminescence grew out of my brush with blindness,” she writes.