![]() ![]() The construction workers and paramedics around When something odd happens – he hears excited chatter, followed by shouts, Strapped into a harness and ready to go, worrying about the crowd of onlookers outside, ![]() To get him outside of his flat for the first time in years. Embarrassed and frightened, Ben watches as construction workers prepare For years the doctors have had to come to him, and now the only way to get him to them is by taking off the wall of his flat and lifting him down with a crane. Not only that, but the logistics of going for the op is not as simple as leaving his flat, journeying to the hospital and being treated – he can’t even get in the lift in his apartment building. ![]() The disease has worsened to the point that one of his legs needs amputating, but as he weighs 601 pounds (43 stone, or thereabouts), the operation is even riskier than it would be for someone of lesser weight. Ben hasn’t left his fourth-floor flat since he was a teenager, and his love of bourbon biscuits and a sedentary, agoraphobic lifestyle has caused a severe case of type 2 diabetes. The novel follows Ben Stone, a super morbidly obese man living alone with his Manchester terrier, Brown. Mysterious disease, but it is genuinely moving and funny – even with the It does begin with the majority of the population dying from a horrible, I’ve been training for this moment my whole life.Īnd After is a surprisingly warm and uplifting post-apocalyptic story. During a pandemic might not seem like the best idea, but I’m a professional ![]()
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