The End Of Everything (a Novel)

By (author) Harrison, M. John
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THE TIMES BESTSELLER ''Dreamlike and baffling'' GUARDIAN ''Extremely beautiful ... I don''t think I''ll read a better book this year, perhaps decade'' OBSERVER ''A formidable book, unexpectedly compassionate'' FINANCIAL TIMES ''I loved this book so much'' SARAH JESSICA PARKER Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It''s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end. Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can''t keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows. The End of Everything is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction. A ''Book to Read in 2026'' in the NEW STATESMAN, and IRISH TIMES A Best New Book in the DAILY TELEGRAPH, iNEWS and NEW SCIENTIST A GUARDIAN Summer Read ''At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying'' JULIA ARMFIELD ''Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we''re in'' OLIVIA LAING
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Confounding, brilliant ... What drives it is the tension from all that strangeness being reported in calm, often drily witty prose
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Dreamlike and baffling, The End of Everything elucidates humanity''s disintegrating existence with strange clarity
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Extremely beautiful and terrifyingly remote. Reading it hit me like a truck ... It''s a novel that destabilises you - quite savagely - in the course of its reading. But you''re absolutely not walking away. You''re locked in, and you''re having the time of your life
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A memorable, haunting work ... a world that''s all the more uncanny on account of its proximity to our own
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Harrison isn''t weirder than most other writers, just better. Reading The End of Everything, you feel you''re not so much reading as dreaming
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A bracing vision
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This is a formidable book: dusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate
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A work of genius
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A work of uncanny beauty, tender and terrifying in equal parts
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To take the boisterous trope of the "alien invasion" and render it into this visionary and brilliant investigation of anxious times is breath-taking chutzpah. Of which we are lucky to be the beneficiaries
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This is powerful stuff ... thrilling and disturbing
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The End Of Everything is at once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying. It proves (yet again) that M. John Harrison is a complete original, and one of the finest working writers we have
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The End of Everything, a novel of absences and apparitions, of things almost recognised and far from understood, has little to do with the details, and everything to do with the tenor of how we live now. It will get deep into your bones
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M John Harrison writes astonishingly on the page of course, but he must also be doing something else. This book is both a dream and the dream state itself. I don''t know what else to say - it feels beyond reading. Disturbing and yet revelatory. He''s changed the world here."
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Reminded me of J. G. Ballard ... an addictive, obsessive and digressionary novel about the mundanity of post-apocalyptic life, lives we might be living already
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His deranged images and impeccably glazed sentences create a powerful sense of puzzlement o