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This Is the Way the World Ends by James Morrow (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100156002086

ISBN-139780156002080

eBay Product ID (ePID)50230

Product Key Features

Book TitleThis Is the Way the World Ends

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScience Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction / General, Science Fiction / Humorous

Publication Year1995

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Morrow

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN85-024773

ReviewsNear the end of Morrow's painful novel of nuclear holocaust six survivors representing mankind are tried for their complicity in the war. Denouncing them, an alien prosecutor says, "It did not have to be this way. Three virtues only were needed . . . . the greatest of these is moral outrage." That seems to be the key to a curiously contrived saga of nuclear nightmare. As scenes of family life are followed by explicit scenes of nuclear attack, as obscene theories of nuclear tactics are explained, the only possible reaction is moral outrage. Unfortunately, an overabundance of fantastic elementsthe prophecies of Nostradamus, giant prehistoric birds, a flying tailor shop, a mysterious alien race called the unadmittedis never quite joined into a coherent whole. In the ensuing confusion, the novel loses much of its power. Not recommended. Beth Ann Mills, New Rochelle P.L., N.Y.

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisThe Gulliver's Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War III. "The only book in the last ten years that I've read twice...a remarkable achievement" (Arthur C. Clarke).