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

O'Connell LCSW, Mark

ISBN 10: 1783784067 / ISBN 13: 9781783784066

Published by Granta Books, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783784067
• ISBN 13: 9781783784066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

From the prize-winning author of To Be a Machine - meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world 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.

About the Author

Mark O'Connell is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be a Machine, won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book, Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, and his work has appeared in theNew Yorker.