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| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018] |
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| Description: | vii, 315 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Irwell edition of the works of Anthony Burgess Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. Irwell edition of the works of Anthony Burgess. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11735237 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 315 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 1526132737 9781526132734 |
