The End of the World Book: A Novel

The End of the World Book: A Novel
by Alistair McCartney

The End of the World Book: A Novel
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Author: Alistair McCartney
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-13
ISBN: 0299226301
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

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Summary: 5 Stars

Unforgettable, obsessive, poignant. McCartney explores his topic with a jeweler's eye, cutting for us new facets into the Tao of the world.
An extraordinary book by a writer who plays for real.
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This is no ordinary novel. An encyclopedia of memory-from A to Z-The End of the World Book deftly intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life as they both hurtle toward a frightening future. Alistair McCartney's alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, plagues to zippers, while barreling from antiquity to the present.?
In this profound book about mortality, McCartney composes an irreverent archive of philosophical obsessions and homoerotic fixations, demonstrating the difficulty of separating what is real from what is imagined.

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