The End of Nightwork
€14.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781783789542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aidan Cottrell-Boyce |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.208 |
| Publishing Date | 18/01/2024 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.92 |
| Tax | €0.83 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.75 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years overnight, and now in his early thirties, he still has the outward appearance of a twenty-three-year-old. But with his condition dormant, Pol and his wife Caroline manage to live an ordinary life in Kilburn. They're happy enough, even if having a young child has put something of a strain on their marriage. That and Pol's obsessive interest in the writings of an obscure seventeenth-century Puritan prophet, Bartholomew Playfere, and his premonitions of ecological disaster and the end of the world. But while Pol is failing to complete his research on Playfere, he encounters a radical new movement that argues that all economic and political events are part of an aeon-long struggle between the old and the young - that the 'hoarist' habit of violence, their need to conquer, has also affected how they treat the planet. The leader of this popular movement predicts an imminent inter-generational conflict - father against son, mother against daughter - that echoes Playfere's own prophecies. Against this increasingly fraught backdrop, Pol's dormant condition threatens to resurface - putting both the safety and happiness of his family at risk.