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Our Tragic Universe
Scarlett Thomas
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Description for Our Tragic Universe
Paperback. Could a story save your life? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316. 448 pages. Could a story save your life?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight: 316.
Could a story save your life? If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that? Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time and a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.
Could a story save your life? If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that? Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time and a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847671295
SKU
V9781847671295
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-39
About Scarlett Thomas
Scarlett Thomas was born in London in 1972. Her previous novels include Bright Young Things, Going Out, PopCo and The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. She teaches at the University of Kent and has recently published two chidren's novels, Dragon's Green and The Chosen Ones, part of a trilogy that will conclude with Galloglass in 2019.
Reviews for Our Tragic Universe
Our Tragic Universe surprised me, and in such a terrific way. It is so addictive, you can't help but fall deeper and deeper under Scarlett Thomas's spell. She's a genius
Douglas Coupland A delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy.
Philip Pullman Is it odd to describe a book as kind? The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with a compassion and warmth
Patrick Ness
Guardian
Thomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you're reading a sparkling romantic comedy
Kate Saunders
The Times
Our Tragic Universe is a huge, ambitious experiment, carried out by one of the finest minds of her generation.
SFX magazine
Warm and brainy
Colin Waters
Sunday Herald
Thomas is excellent on emotional tangles and meandering plotlines that still manage to mean something.
Lesley McDowell
Independent on Sunday
Thomas' style is engaging and lures us into Meg's world.
Alastair Mabbott
Herald
Douglas Coupland A delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy.
Philip Pullman Is it odd to describe a book as kind? The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with a compassion and warmth
Patrick Ness
Guardian
Thomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you're reading a sparkling romantic comedy
Kate Saunders
The Times
Our Tragic Universe is a huge, ambitious experiment, carried out by one of the finest minds of her generation.
SFX magazine
Warm and brainy
Colin Waters
Sunday Herald
Thomas is excellent on emotional tangles and meandering plotlines that still manage to mean something.
Lesley McDowell
Independent on Sunday
Thomas' style is engaging and lures us into Meg's world.
Alastair Mabbott
Herald