{"product_id":"notes-from-an-apocalypse-a-personal-journey-to-the-end-of-the-world-and-back-9780525435310","title":"Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eHarrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell --Jenny Offill\u003cbr\u003e\"Fascinating...Oddly uplifting\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmart, funny, irreverent, and philosophically rich --\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eTo Be a Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and coming to grips with the future \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Old postwar alliances are crumbling. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt. Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does it mean to have children--nothing if not an act of hope--in such unsettled times? What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on Earth is anybody \u003ci\u003edoing\u003c\/i\u003e about it? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is consumed by these questions--and, as the father of two young children himself, he finds them increasingly urgent. In \u003ci\u003eNotes from an Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists. And he bears witness to those places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited--real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he comes to a resolution, while offering readers a unique window into our contemporary imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth investigative and deeply personal, \u003ci\u003eNotes from an Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is an affecting, humorous, and surprisingly hopeful meditation on our present moment. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world \u003ci\u003eisn't\u003c\/i\u003e the end of the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525435310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288","brand":"Mark O'Connell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38607575482549,"sku":"9780525435310","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f1041c8f-b0d7-429c-92e5-f1f94483c48d.jpg?v=1614089505","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/notes-from-an-apocalypse-a-personal-journey-to-the-end-of-the-world-and-back-9780525435310","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}