Our Tragic Universe

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2010

ISBN-13: 9780547504650

<DIV><B>This &ldquo;delightfully whimsical novel riffs on the premise that ordinary lives stubbornly resist the tidy order that a fiction narrative might impose on them&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Can a story save your life?<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend&rsquo;s only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> But who wants to live forever?<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories of everything, narrative theory, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through <I>Our Tragic Universe</I>, asking this and many other questions. Does she believe in fairies? In magic? Is she a superbeing? Is she living a storyless story? And what&rsquo;s the connection between her off-hand suggestion to push a car into a river, a ship in a bottle, a mysterious beast loose on the moor, and the controversial author of <I>The Science of Living Forever</I>?<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas&rsquo;s trademark big ideas, <I>Our Tragic Universe</I> is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed, how we can rewrite our futures (if not our histories), and how stories just might save our lives.</DIV>