Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'connell Lcsw
From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world In the remote mountains of Scotland, in high-tech bunkers in South Dakota and in the lush valleys of New Zealand, small groups of determined men and women are getting ready. They are environmentalists who fear the ravages of climate change; billionaire entrepreneurs dreaming of life on Mars; and right-wing conspiracists yearning for a lost American idyll. One thing unites them: their certainty that we are only years away from the end of civilization as we know it. Not unconcerned himself by the possibility of the end of days, Mark O'Connell set out to meet them.
Extraordinarily good-insightful, affecting, funny, and appropriately terrifyingThe perfect handbook for the end times. Mark O'Connell is a truly brilliant writer and Notes from an Apocalypse could hardly be more incisive, or more timely -- Sally Rooney
Anyone with open eyes lives today bound by apocalyptic fears for the future and the maddening same-ness that defines the present day. Notes from an Apocalypse is a penetrating investigation into that new uncanny, which shapes both our collective indifference and our climate rage -- David Wallace Wells, author of * The Uninhabitable Earth *
O'Connell is a very, very funny writer and he inserts himself Ronson-like into a series of absurd, ironic and alarming situations... an important book, as well as a seriously funny one' * Sunday Times *
Riveting, fascinating, comic and appalling... O'Connell is a charming guide * Scotsman *
A writer with quite a way with words... he reports with a fluency and humour any novelist might envy... A gem of a book * Evening Standard *
Disarmingly funny * Spectator *
Extraordinary, utterly vital... like some dream combination of Jon Ronson and Don DeLillo -- Paul Murray
Anyone with open eyes lives today bound by apocalyptic fears for the future and the maddening same-ness that defines the present day. Notes from an Apocalypse is a penetrating investigation into that new uncanny, which shapes both our collective indifference and our climate rage -- David Wallace Wells, author of * The Uninhabitable Earth *
O'Connell is a very, very funny writer and he inserts himself Ronson-like into a series of absurd, ironic and alarming situations... an important book, as well as a seriously funny one' * Sunday Times *
Riveting, fascinating, comic and appalling... O'Connell is a charming guide * Scotsman *
A writer with quite a way with words... he reports with a fluency and humour any novelist might envy... A gem of a book * Evening Standard *
Disarmingly funny * Spectator *
Extraordinary, utterly vital... like some dream combination of Jon Ronson and Don DeLillo -- Paul Murray
Mark O'Connell is the author of To Be a Machine (Granta 2017), which won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017. He lives in Dublin with his family. He writes for the Guardian, Slate, the New York Times and The Millions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781783786374 |
| ISBN 10 | 178378637X |
| Title | Notes from an Apocalypse |
| Author | Mark O'connell Lcsw |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2020-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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