Description
Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time.
Someone leaves and it's the end of the world.
Someone comes back and it's the end of the world.
Somebody puts their cock in you and it's the end of the world.
Somebody stops putting their cock in you and it's the end of the world.
Here is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope.
It's about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and an Irishman who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It's about the porousness of the female bodily experience, the challenges of being an empiricist with a sample size of one, what's worth knowing, what's worth living, and the necessity of irrationality.
It's about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it's about what to try to do next.
'Gethan's artistic eye for detail, her ability to connect the everyday with the existential, has resulted in an original and lyrical piece of work ... unlike
anything I've read in recent memory.' - Johny Pitts, presenter of R4's 'A Good Read' and author of Afropean
'The spectrum of themes that interests Gethan is vast, generous, funny, resistant and alive.' - Valerie Manteau, novelist and winner of the Prix Renaudot
About the Author
GETHAN DICK was born in 1980 in Belfast and grew up in the west of Ireland. She moved to London for an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She then studied at Camberwell College of Art and shifted her creative practice towards text-based and co-created visual art. She moved to Marseille, France, where she has lived since 2011, working as one half of visual-arts duo gethan&myles with her partner, Myles Quin.
Book Information
ISBN 9781915290168
Author Gethan Dick
Format Paperback
Imprint Tramp Press
Publisher Tramp Press
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