Paul Auster: In the Country of Last Things

In the Country of Last Things


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'That is how it works in the City. Every time you think you know the answer to a question, you discover that the question makes no sense ...' This is the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. Like the City itself, however, it is a journey that is doomed, and so all that is left is Anna's unwritten account of what happened. Paul Auster takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. But this is not just an imaginary, futuristic world - it is one that echoes our own, and in doing so addresses some of our darker legacies.

You could probably come up with a whole telephone-book-sized list of activities you'd rather be doing than talking to your teenagers about sex. With the "pornification" of everything from adolescent fashions to primetime television commercials, who can take a chance on withholding from kids the real score on human sexuality? And as chaos looms, a local magistrate investigating a series of murders suddenly finds himself at the heart of a far more ancient and terrifying crime - one that has tainted an entire land..."Stonewielder" is an enthralling new chapter in the epic story of a thrillingly imagined world. Through his brilliant account of the fears and anxieties that weigh on us today, Bauman alerts us to the scale of the task which we shall have to confront through most of the current century if we wish our fellow humans to emerge at its A Beautiful Blue Death free pdf end feeling more secure and self-confident than we feel at its beginning.


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Author: Paul Auster
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Published Date: 08 Jul 2005
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780571227303
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