Puma - The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess

Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess's hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.

ISBN:	9781526132734
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Published date:	05 Oct 2018
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	vii, 315
Weight:	536g
Height:	195mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	30mm

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