• The Amateurs

  • By: Liz Harmer
  • Narrated by: Stacey DePass
  • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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By: Liz Harmer
Narrated by: Stacey DePass
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Publisher's Summary

"Harmer takes cues from Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy in this sharp debut, a cautionary tale of tech gone astray." (Toronto Life

In a time and place only slightly removed from now, PINA, the world’s largest tech company, has introduced society to a new product called “Port”. This irresistible space-time travel device is mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing: Step inside a Port and find yourself transported any place your heart desires, real or imagined. Earth’s population plummets when many who pass through its portal don’t come back - either unwilling or unable to return. 

In The Amateurs, Liz Harmer has crafted a subtle, many-faceted debut novel about rapture and romance - and the strange, dark, powerful alchemy that happens when technology meets desire. 

Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

©2018 Liz Harmer (P)2019 Penguin Random House Canada

Critic Reviews

Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

“Harmer takes cues from Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy in this sharp debut, a cautionary tale of tech gone astray.” (Toronto Life)  

“In her near perfect debut novel, Liz Harmer taps into current anxieties about technology to explore themes of transcendence, post-urbanity, and survival.... Harmer’s prose and pacing are elegant and precise, her characters distinct and engaging.... The novel’s dystopian setting is fully realized... nearly every conceivable question about the post-port world is addressed with grace and subtlety.... [The Amaterus] captivates right up to its final page.” (Quill & Quire)   

“[A] stunningly powerful work of post-apocalyptic fiction that examines our sense of reality and deals with the ultimate questions of where we came from and where we’re headed.” (The Hamilton Spectator)  

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