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About the Book

Could a story save your life? If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But who would want that? Certainly not Meg, a bright spark trapped in a hopeless relationship. But if she can work out the connection between a wild beast on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe, she might just find a way out.

About the Author :
SCARLETT THOMAS was born in London in 1972. Her previous novels include Bright Young Things, Going Out, PopCo and The End of Mr. Y, which was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007. She teaches at the University of Kent.

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A delight, not least for the quality of Scarlett Thomas's writing... Full of life and energy. Ingenious and original. A cracking good yarn, fizzing with intelligence Our Tragic Universe surprised me, and in such a terrific way. It is so addictive, you can't help but fall deeper and deeper under Scarlett Thomas's spell. She's a genius. Richly allusive, freewheeling and enormously satisfying Immensely bright and very much on the cutting edge A masterpiece... A brilliant and engaging story that makes you rethink the nature of existence and the true structure of the world Thomas has the mesmerising power of a great story teller - even if you're not always sure what she's telling you is a story. [Thomas's] great asset is a mad grab-bag of a mind whose imprint on the novel leaves it brimming with ideas . . . for those who like their fiction 'meta', this is a veriegated delight. [Our Tragic Universe] is a novel that fizzes with ideas . . . And if you've never read a Thomas novel then let's be clear: the ideas are big. Thomas can discuss quantum physics and philosophy while making you think you're reading a sparkling romantic comedy. By virtue of her intellect and playfulness, Thomas now seems to belong in the same school as Borges and Kundera. Is it odd to describe a book as kind? The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with a compassion and warmth. Our brains hurt - in a good way - as we read Scarlett Thomas's smarty-pants new novel about time travel, the shape of the universe and possibly the Cottingly fairies. This is a novel of big ideas, with an engaging and identifiable central character, which will appeal to David Mitchell fans. Thomas . . . a lively writer with a great eye for detail . . . once again excels at handling heavy topics lightly. Our Tragic Universe is a huge, ambitious experiment, carried out by one of the finest minds of her generation.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847679314
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 178 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847679315
  • Publisher Date: 07 Apr 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 111 mm


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