The Chthonic Cycle by Cruickshank, Una

The Chthonic Cycle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781776922154)

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The Chthonic Cycle by Cruickshank, Una

The Chthonic Cycle

$19.95
The Chthonic Cycle by Cruickshank, Una

The Chthonic Cycle

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Written in an effort to ward off existential dread, and to find new understandings and consolations for those similarly afflicted, The Chthonic Cycle is an eccentric and brilliantly curated tour through time, in which fascinating objects glint and spark and the transience of humanity flickers. At the heart of Una Cruickshank's debut are Earth's interlocking cycles of death and reuse. The blood of a billion-year-old tree emerges from the sea as a drop of amber; 4,756,940 pieces of Lego float towards the Cornish Peninsula; a giant squid's beak passes through a whale's intestines into bottles of Chanel No. 5. The violence of colonisation underpins some of the transformations illuminated here, as we follow wave after wave of ruin and remaking. This is a rare kind of writing, both galaxy-sweeping and microscopically specific. The Chthonic Cycle reminds us to be chastened and scared by our world - its mind-bending age, the insane complexity of its systems, the violent upheavals and mass extinctions - as well as to be awed.

Author: Una Cruickshank
ISBN-10: 1776922158
ISBN-13: 9781776922154
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
By Una Cruickshank
By Una Cruickshank
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Una Cruickshank has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and another earlier MA that she doesn't talk about as much. She was born in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland and now lives in Poneke Wellington. She works at an audiovisual archive and haunts the city's cinemas and libraries, and that one karaoke place that smells like boiled meat. The Chthonic Cycle is her first book.

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