
Apocalypse for Beginners
Nicolas Dickner(Author)
Granta Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-84627-260-8 (ISBN)
Description
Boy meets girl and... boom! The boy falls hopelessly in love and secretly harbours hopes for their romantic future. And the girl? Well, the girl is fully convinced that there is no future at all: not just for them, but for the entire planet. Moving between Canada and Japan, between solid ground and flights of the surreal, this is the sweet, surprising story of two people travelling from friendship to romance, and from separation to the possibility of reunion.
Reviews / Votes
I loved this sharp, funny and wacky romcom... I also predict that the last line of the book will end up on tattoos and T-shirts everywhere. * Daily Mail * An eccentric, ebullient romantic comedy about deep friendship and eternal love * The Times * Dickner tells his off-kilter romcom with a thoughtful clarity that makes it very appealing. Lovers of imaginative randomness will find this a book after their own hearts * Metro * This slickly composed novel... gleams with on-trend observation and doomsday cynicism. * Independent * Blessed with a sense of fun and period. * Sunday Herald * A quirky and post-modern rom-com. * Big Issue * Mildly dysfunctional indie types have a literary romcom to call their own in this sweet, slightly self-conscious follow-up to Nikolski... Dickner assembles some ostensibly ill-assorted ingredients into a pleasingly idiosyncratic narrative... Dickner tells his off-kilter romcom with a thoughtful clarity that makes it very appealing. Lovers of imaginative randomness will find this a book after their own hearts. -- Tina Jackson * Metro * Lazer Lederhendler's rendering is remarkably even, and several of the novel's issues run deeper than mere sentence-level concerns. -- Sam Byers * TLS *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
207 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84627-260-8 (9781846272608)
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Nicolas Dickner
Apocalypse for Beginners
E-Book
01/2011
1st Edition
GRANTA BOOKS
€11.99
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Persons
Born in Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, Nicolas Dickner won two literary awards for his first published work, the short story collection L'encyclopedie du petit cercle. His debut novel, Nikolski (Portobello, 2009) scooped almost every major literary award in Quebec, as well as the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation.