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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Puma
Author: BURGESS ANTHONY
Illustrator: WAKE PAUL (ED)
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 15/09/2018
Imprint: MANCHESTER UNI PRESS
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
Puma – disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format – is Anthony Burgess’s lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy – the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess’s hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.
ISBN: 9781526132734
Pages: 280