Everyone says that at the end of the world /
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Author / Creator: | Egerton, Owen. |
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Imprint: | Berkeley, CA : Soft Skull Press, [2013] |
Description: | 360 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9899511 |
Summary: | In this "often riotous, ultimately moving Cat's Cradle for our time," a Texas couple prepares for the apocalypse ( Kirkus Reviews ).<br> <br> In Austin, Milton and Rica are expecting their first child. It's four days and counting. Not for the baby. But for the end of the world. Evidence- Haydon Brock, a godless television star has suddenly traded his Hollywood fame for salvation. A prophetic hermit crab is embarking on an unfathomable cross-country quest. Planes are dropping from the sky. And the president and first lady disappear. No omen is too inexplicable to Milton. He's learned for a fact that our planet is one vast asylum for the incurably insane. And its cosmic guardians are about to close down the whole damn thing.<br> <br> Then Milton receives one more premonition- to seek out Haydon now holed up somewhere in Marfa. To what end Milton hasn't a clue. To find out, Milton, Rica, and their best friend head west across an increasingly cataclysmic landscape of inter-dimensional time travelers, Jesus clones, sleep-deprived monks, ghosts, and angels in an epic and manic quest to outrun the last days on Earth.<br> <br> Combining humor, philosophical inquiry and an unforgettable cast of characters, "this sharp-witted satire" ( Booklist ) "is a future classic, and people will be reading it decades from now. I know I will" (Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe ). |
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Physical Description: | 360 pages ; 23 cm |
ISBN: | 9781593765187 1593765185 |