
Alexandria
by Paul Kingsnorth
Title:
Alexandria
Author:
Paul Kingsnorth
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
416 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571322121
EAN:
9780571322121
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
456
Dimensions (mm):
129 x 198 x 35
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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. They are perhaps the Earth's only human survivors.But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria. A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth's new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning The Wake.












