{"product_id":"9781529095951","title":"Everything Must Go : Why We Are Obsessed With the End of the World","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lynskey, Dorian \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eBiography: literary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 April 2025 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 512 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 130 x 32 | 346g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the HBO’s The Last of Us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . . . Brilliant' – The Spectator'Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written’ – The GuardianWe have always told ourselves stories about the end of the world. Long before we watched superintelligent AI wage war on humanity in The Terminator, or read about a catastrophic deluge in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, art, literature and politics were all haunted by recurring visions of apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Everything Must Go – a colourful, witty and stirring cultural history of the modern world that weaves in politics, history and science – Dorian Lynskey explores the endings that we have read, listened to, or watched with morbid fascination, from the sci-fi terrors of H. G. Wells and John Wyndham to the apocalyptic ballads of Bob Dylan and planet-shattering movie blockbusters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether we’re fantasizing about nuclear holocaust or a collision with an asteroid, a devastating pandemic or a robot revolution, why do we like to scare ourselves, and why do we keep coming back for more? And how do fictional premonitions of the end play into real-life responses to existential threats?Deeply illuminating about our past and our present, and surprisingly hopeful about our future, Everything Must Go will grip you from beginning to, well, end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I was blown away by this book' – Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland'Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound' – Ian Dunt, author of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46738640077059,"sku":"9781529095951","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781529095951.jpg?v=1744299594","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781529095951","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}