Notes
from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
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"A
fantastic book. It's harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell. O'Connell
proves himself to be a genius guide through all the circles of imagined and
anticipated doom." --Jenny Offill
By the author of the
award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious
present tense--and coming to grips with the future
We're alive in a time of
worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances
are crumbling. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is
the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a
grim future? What does it mean to have children--nothing if not an act of hope?
What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on Earth is anybody
doing about it?
Dublin-based writer Mark
O'Connell is consumed by these questions--and, as the father of two young
children himself, he finds them increasingly urgent. In Notes from an
Apocalypse, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival
bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of
billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. He engages with would-be Mars
colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to those
places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited--real-life
portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he comes to a
resolution, while offering readers a unique window into our contemporary
imagination.
Both investigative and deeply
personal, Notes from an Apocalypse is an affecting, humorous, and surprisingly
hopeful meditation on our present moment. With insight, humanity, and wit,
O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world isn't the end of
the world?
Product
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File Size :
1804 KB
Print Length : 257 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN : 1783784067
Publisher :
Doubleday (April 14, 2020)
Publication Date : April 14, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07V41ZXVH
