{"product_id":"alexandria-9781644450352","title":"Alexandria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA visionary and timely novel about a world out of balance by the prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen Swans return, Alexandria will fall.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne thousand years from now, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world's last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a time on the far side of an apocalypse, and perhaps on the verge of another, Paul Kingsnorth's radical new novel is a work of matchless, mythic imagination. It is driven by elemental themes: community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man--and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown, unknowable future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexandria \u003c\/i\u003eis the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth's prizewinning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Kingsnorth\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Recovering Environmentalist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wake\u003c\/i\u003e. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists, and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brin\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50437298422034,"sku":"9781644450352","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d0f81a98-dcb0-40a1-9bf1-8ddf222b1ce5.jpg?v=1729642502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/alexandria-9781644450352","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}