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Everything Must Go (inbunden, eng)
<p><b>A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s <i>The...
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<p><b>A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s <i>The Last Man</i> to the HBO’s <i>The Last of Us</i>.</b><br><br><b>'Will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out .
. . Brilliant' – <i>The Spectator</i></b><br><br><b>'Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written’ – <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>We have always told ourselves stories about the end of the world.
Long before we watched superintelligent AI wage war on humanity in <i>The Terminator</i>, or read about a catastrophic deluge in J. G. Ballard’s <i>The Drowned World</i>, art, literature and politics were all haunted by recurring visions of apocalypse.<br><br>In <i>Everything Must Go</i> – a colourful, witty and stirring cultural history of the modern world that weaves in politics, history and science – Dorian Lynskey explores the endings that we have read, listened to, or watched with morbid fascination, from the sci-fi terrors of H.
G. Wells and John Wyndham to the apocalyptic ballads of Bob Dylan and planet-shattering movie blockbusters.<br><br>Whether we’re fantasizing about nuclear holocaust or a collision with an asteroid, a devastating pandemic or a robot revolution, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more? And how do fictional premonitions of the end play into real-life responses to existential threats?<br><br>Deeply illuminating about our past and our present, and surprisingly hopeful about our future, <i>Everything Must Go</i> will grip you from beginning to, well, end.<br><br><b>'I was blown away by this book' – Sathnam Sanghera, author of <i>Empireland</i></b><br><br><b>'Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound' – Ian Dunt, author of <i>How Westminster Works </i> . . <i>and Why It Doesn't</i></b></p>
. . Brilliant' – <i>The Spectator</i></b><br><br><b>'Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written’ – <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>We have always told ourselves stories about the end of the world.
Long before we watched superintelligent AI wage war on humanity in <i>The Terminator</i>, or read about a catastrophic deluge in J. G. Ballard’s <i>The Drowned World</i>, art, literature and politics were all haunted by recurring visions of apocalypse.<br><br>In <i>Everything Must Go</i> – a colourful, witty and stirring cultural history of the modern world that weaves in politics, history and science – Dorian Lynskey explores the endings that we have read, listened to, or watched with morbid fascination, from the sci-fi terrors of H.
G. Wells and John Wyndham to the apocalyptic ballads of Bob Dylan and planet-shattering movie blockbusters.<br><br>Whether we’re fantasizing about nuclear holocaust or a collision with an asteroid, a devastating pandemic or a robot revolution, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more? And how do fictional premonitions of the end play into real-life responses to existential threats?<br><br>Deeply illuminating about our past and our present, and surprisingly hopeful about our future, <i>Everything Must Go</i> will grip you from beginning to, well, end.<br><br><b>'I was blown away by this book' – Sathnam Sanghera, author of <i>Empireland</i></b><br><br><b>'Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound' – Ian Dunt, author of <i>How Westminster Works </i> . . <i>and Why It Doesn't</i></b></p>
| Format | Inbunden |
| Omfång | 512 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2024-04-11 |
| ISBN | 9781529095937 |
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- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 512
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-04-11
- ISBN 9781529095937
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Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 512
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-04-11
- ISBN 9781529095937