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End of the World Book (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780299226305)
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xThis 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.
Finalist, PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction
Author: Alistair McCartney
ISBN-10: 0299226301
ISBN-13: 9780299226305
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.29w x 0.95d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/11/2008 pg. 52
Library Journal 05/01/2008 pg. 57
Lambda Book Report 08/01/2008 pg. 31
By Alistair McCartney
xAlistair McCartney teaches creative writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Fence, Bloom, James White Review, and other literary journals as well as in a number of fiction and creative nonfiction anthologies, including Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and Between Men. Born in Australia, he lives in Los Angeles with his partner Tim Miller. This is his first novel. Finalist, PEN USA Literary Award in Fiction Award, PEN Center USA
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