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Book Title

Alexandria

Subtitle
A Novel
Author 1
Paul Kingsnorth
Body
When Swans return, Alexandria will fall.
 
One 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.

Set 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. 
 
Alexandria is the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth’s prizewinning novel, The Wake, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history.

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List Price
$16.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-64445-035-2
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
408
Trim Size
Trim Size
5.5 x 8.25
Keynote
A visionary and timely novel about a world out of balance by the prizewinning author of The Wake

About the Author

Paul  Kingsnorth
Credit: Clare McNamee
Paul Kingsnorth is the author of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist, Beast, and The Wake. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink.

http://paulkingsnorth.net/
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Praise

  • “Imaginative, moody, brilliantly written—vintage Kingsnorth, that is, and a boon for readers of speculative fiction.”Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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