{"product_id":"9780571322121-alexandria","title":"Alexandria","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beckett doing \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Beckett doing \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island - a group no larger than an extended family - are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth's only human survivors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth's new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet on the far side of the climate apocalypse, \u003ci\u003eAlexandria\u003c\/i\u003e completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943293857889,"sku":"9780571322121","price":7.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36417708.jpg?v=1759495464","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571322121-alexandria","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}