London: Canongate Books Ltd, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Issued Without Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first printing. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean, gilt perfect. Text block clean, feels unread. Minor bump to head and foot of spine, near fine condition. No Jacket as issued. Illustrated gilt boards sharp and very nice. Overall near fine. This copy is not ex-lib, not priced clipped and has no inscriptions. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A lovely example of this collectible first edition first printing title

Synopsis

Can a story save your life? Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend’s only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. But who wants to live forever? Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe , asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what’s the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of The Science of Living Forever ? Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas’s trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.

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Bookseller: Durdles Books (IOBA) (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001657
Title: Our Tragic Universe
Author: Thomas, Scarlett
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Issued Without Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 184767089X
ISBN 13: 9781847670892
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2010
Pages: 448
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: End of Mr Y General
Bookseller catalogs: Fantasy;
X weight: 750 g

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Durdles Books is an online bookshop that specialises in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Modern Firsts and Genre Fiction. We also have books in many other categories and think our stock is both varied and interesting. We are constantly busy sourcing new stock in great condition, as collectors ourselves we appreciate that there is nothing like finding a lovely copy of a book that is on "the list". We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), so you can be assured of our commitment to good bookselling practices and customer service.

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