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This is no ordinary novel. An encyclopedia of memory—from A to Z—The End of the World Book deftly intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life as they both hurtle toward a frightening future. Alistair McCartney's alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, plagues to zippers, while barreling from antiquity to the present. In this profound book about mortality, McCartney composes an irreverent archive of philosophical obsessions and homoerotic fixations, demonstrating the difficulty of separating what is real from what is imagined. Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, The Publishing Triangle Finalist, PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction

Author

Alistair McCartney

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press; Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299226336

Subjects

Science, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (54 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14