Damon Lindelof is bewilder back to his television roots with Tom Perotta ’s The Leftovers , a supremely angry novel about what materialize to those left behind after the Rapture . The two are currently in talks to adjust this book for an HBO series .
allot toVulture , Lindelof is raging to make The Leftovers a television series . We ’re in , as long as Perrotta stays on board to reel in Lindelof ’s flightier playscript tendency . Here’sthe book ’s abstract :
What if - hiss , powerful now , with no account - a number of us merely vanished ? Would some of us prostration ? Would others of us go on , one metrical unit in front of the other , as we did before the mankind turn upside down ?
That ’s what the mazed citizen of Mapleton , who fall back many of their neighbour , friend and lover in the effect experience as the Sudden Departure , have to project out . Because nothing has been the same since it happened - not marriage , not friendly relationship , not even the relationships between parents and children .
Kevin Garvey , Mapleton ’s new mayor , wants to speed up the healing procedure , to bring a sense of renewed hope and purpose to his traumatized residential area . Kevin ’s own sept has fallen asunder in the backwash of the calamity : his married woman , Laurie , has left to unite the Guilty Remnant , a homegrown craze whose member take a vow of quiet ; his Logos , Tom , is gone , too , dropping out of college to come after a unelaborated prophet named Holy Wayne . Only Kevin ’s teenaged daughter , Jill , stay , and she ’s definitely not the sweet “ A ” bookman she used to be . Kevin wants to serve her , but he ’s distracted by his growing relationship with Nora Durst , a woman who lost her full sept on October 14th and is still reeling from the calamity , even as she clamber to move beyond it and make a newfangled start .
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