{"product_id":"alexandria-9781644450352","title":"Alexandria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary and timely novel about a world out of balance by the prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Swans return, Alexandria will fall.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne thousand years from now, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world's last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a time on the far side of an apocalypse, and perhaps on the verge of another, Paul Kingsnorth's radical new novel is a work of matchless, mythic imagination. It is driven by elemental themes: community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man--and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown, unknowable future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandria \u003c\/i\u003eis the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth's prizewinning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Paul Kingsnorth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36664497275036,"sku":"9781644450352","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_00b49903-2e07-4a3b-a64e-9fb2154e4da6.jpg?v=1603906838","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alexandria-9781644450352","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}