Notes from an Apocalypse
A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:8th Apr '21
Should be back in stock very soon
Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two Mark O'Connell meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.
Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.
Extraordinarily good-insightful, affecting, funny, and appropriately terrifying. The 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 *
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 *
Extraordinary, utterly vital... like some dream combination of Jon Ronson and Don DeLillo -- Paul Murray
Seriously funny... Disturbingly relevant... Some of O'Connell's encounters are deliciously, novelistically weird... The brilliance of the book, though, lies in the analysis... this is ultimately, surprisingly, a hopeful book.... brilliantly done * Sunday Times *
ISBN: 9781783784073
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 194g
272 pages