Alistair McCartney at Books Inc in the Castro
"The End of the World Book"
- When
- Tue May 20, 2008
- Where
- Books Inc. in the Castro
- Time
- 7:30 PM
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Book Stores
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Description
Author Alistair McCarthy, will be reading selections from his new novel, The End of the World Book.This is no ordinary novel. An encyclopedia of memory-from A to Z-"The End of the World Book" deftly intertwines fiction, memoir, and cultural history, reimagining the story of the world and one man's life as they both hurtle toward a frightening future. Alistair McCartney's alphabetical guide to the apocalypse layers images like a prose poem, building from Aristotle to da Vinci, hip-hop to lederhosen, plagues to zippers, while barreling from antiquity to the present.
In this profound book about mortality, McCartney composes an irreverent archive of philosophical obsessions and homoerotic fixations, demonstrating the difficulty of separating what is real from what is imagined.
This Event is Free at Books Inc. 2275 Market St. San Francisco 94114
For Questions: 415.864.6777 or on the web at http://www.booksinc.net and
http://www.myspace.com/booksinccastro
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- Link
- http://booksinc.net/NASApp/store/IndexJsp;jsessionid=abc3Vx4...
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- 415.864.6777
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