
My Volcano
by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Title:
My Volcano
Author:
John Elizabeth Stintzi
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
360 pages
Publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN-13:
9781551528731
EAN:
9781551528731
Publication Date:
09/06/2022
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
586
Dimensions (mm):
152 x 204 x 24
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
One morning a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, that three weeks later will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world. My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a cast of characters experiencing private and collective eruptions: a boy in Mexico City finds himself 500 years in the past; a scholar in Tokyo studies a story about a woman coming down a mountain to destroy villages; a trans writer in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilisation on an impossible planet; a nurse works with Syrian refugees in Greece as she tries to grapple with the trauma of surviving an American bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan; a nomadic herder in Mongolia finds himself transformed into a thorned, flowering creature trying to assimilate every living thing on Earth into its consciousness.











