Paul Kingsnorth

Broschiertes Buch

Alexandria

Beschreibung

'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' Telegraph'Beckett doing Beowulf.' London Review of Books One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world.

Autor

Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. His second, Beast, was described by Jay Griffiths as 'a portrait of the psyche in gaunt, glittering transcendence'. He is also the author of One No, Many Yeses and Real England, and a poetry collection, Kidland. He is the co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780571322121
• ISBN-10: 0571322123
• Artikelnr.: 63397023

Rezensionen

Unconventional orthography and mythic style add texture to a story that examines whether the body is essential or merely the mind's cage and whether humans are inherently destructive. The New Yorker