Notes from an Apocalypse

Name: Notes from an Apocalypse
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ISBN: 9781783784073

A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

Mark O'Connell, LCSW

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English

Granta Books
04 May 2021

Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge; Popular science

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.

'A cross between Bill Bryson and David Foster Wallace... A fidgety, fretful but very funny book with which to while away the days in self-isolation' - Times

By: Mark O'Connell LCSW
Imprint: Granta Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 194g
ISBN: 9781783784073
ISBN 10: 1783784075
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back

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 *