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| "Addictive." Douglas Coupland |
Can a story save your life?
Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting.
But who wants to live forever?
Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what's the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever?
Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.
Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting.
But who wants to live forever?
Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what's the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever?
Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.
Used availability for Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe
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Hardback Editions
September 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 0-15-101391-8 / 978-0-15-101391-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
May 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-84767-089-X / 9781847670892 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2013 : Paperback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-84767-921-8 / 9781847679215 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 0-15-603152-3 / 978-0-15-603152-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Mariner Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-84767-129-2 / 9781847671295 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
April 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-84767-931-5 / 9781847679314 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-84767-762-2 / 9781847677624 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
July 2011 : Audio CD
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-4074-6336-5 / 978-1-4074-6336-0 (UK edition) Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
November 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas ISBN: 1-60998-099-9 / 9781609980993 (USA edition) Publisher: AudioGO Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
November 2010 : CD-ROM
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September 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Our Tragic Universe Author(s): Scarlett Thomas Publisher: Canongate Books Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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