{"product_id":"book-dig7","title":"Notes from an Apocalypse","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell\" —Jenny Offill\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating…Oddly uplifting” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Economist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Smart, funny, irreverent, and philosophically rich\" —\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eTo Be a Machine\u003c\/i\u003e, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense—and coming to grips with the future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Old postwar alliances are crumbling. A pandemic draws our global community to a halt.  Everywhere you look there's an omen, a joke whose punchline is the end of the world. How is a person supposed to live in the shadow of such a grim future? What does it mean to have children—nothing if not an act of hope—in such unsettled times?  What might it be like to live through the worst? And what on Earth is anybody \u003ci\u003edoing\u003c\/i\u003e about it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDublin-based writer Mark O'Connell is consumed by these questions—and, as the father of two young children himself, he finds them increasingly urgent. In \u003ci\u003eNotes from an Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, he crosses the globe in pursuit of answers. He tours survival bunkers in South Dakota. He ventures to New Zealand, a favored retreat of billionaires banking on civilization's collapse. He engages with would-be Mars colonists, preppers, right-wing conspiracists.  And he bears witness to those places, like Chernobyl, that the future has already visited—real-life portraits of the end of the world as we know it. In doing so, he comes to a resolution, while offering readers a unique window into our contemporary imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth investigative and deeply personal, \u003ci\u003eNotes from an Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e is an affecting, humorous, and surprisingly hopeful meditation on our present moment. With insight, humanity, and wit, O'Connell leaves you to wonder: What if the end of the world \u003ci\u003eisn't\u003c\/i\u003e the end of the world?","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49327843606832,"sku":"BDdig7","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/410631-dig7-Square.jpg?v=1733700144","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dig7","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}