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Our tragic universe

Can a story save your life'Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend'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. But who wants to live forever'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 Our Tragic Universe, 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'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 The Science of Living Forever'Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe 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.

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  • "Our tragic universe"@it
  • "Thomas, Das Ende der Geschichten"

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  • "Can a story save your life'Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend'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. But who wants to live forever'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 Our Tragic Universe, 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'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 The Science of Living Forever'Smart, entrancing, and boiling over with Thomas's trademark big ideas, Our Tragic Universe 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."@en
  • ""Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to live forever? Our Tragic Universe finds connections where we didn't know they existed, breaks down conventions that keep us from our destinies, and shows us how we just might be able to rewrite our futures"--Cover page 4."
  • "Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to live forever? Our Tragic Universe finds connections where we didn't know they existed, breaks down conventions that keep us from our destinies, and shows us how we just might be able to rewrite our futures"--T.p. verso (in Russian)."
  • "If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg - locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline long-gone for a book that she can't write - this thought fills her with dread. 'Our Tragic Universe' is a book about how relationships are created and destroyed."@en
  • ""Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to live forever? Our Tragic Universe finds connections where we didn't know they existed, breaks down conventions that keep us from our destinies, and shows us how we just might be able to rewrite our futures"--Cover, p. 4."
  • "Meg is lost in a labyrinth of her own divising. But could there be an important connection between a wild beast living on Dartmoor, a ship in a bottle, the science of time, a knitting pattern for the shape of the universe and the Cottingley Fairies? Or is her life just one long chain of coincidences."@en
  • "If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can't write this thought fills her with dread. Stuck in a labyrinth of her own devising, Meg knows that there must be a way out."@en
  • "If Kelsey Newman's theory about the end of the time is true, we are all going to live forever. But for Meg locked in a dead-end relationship and with a deadline looming for a book that she can't write this thought fills her with dread. Stuck in a labyrinth of her own devising, Meg knows that there must be a way out."
  • ""Meg Capenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So when a book called The Science of Living Forever lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it, starting on a labyrinthine journey that takes her from mysterious beasts of the moor to forest fairies to ships in bottles. New Age theories of everything to physics to narrative theory, and forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to live forever? Our Tragic Universe finds connections where we didn't know they existed, breaks down conventions that keep us from our destinies, and shows us how we just might be able to rewrite our futures"--Cover, p. 4."

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  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"

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  • "Das Ende der Geschichten Roman"
  • "Das Ende der Geschichten : Roman"
  • "Das Ende der Geschichten"
  • "Nasha tragicheskai︠a︡ vselennai︠a︡ : [roman]"
  • "Náš tragický vesmír"
  • "Our tragic universe"@en
  • "Our tragic universe"
  • "Vores tragiske univers : roman"@da
  • "Il nostro tragico universo"
  • "Il nostro tragico universo"@it
  • "Our Tragic Universe"@en
  • "Nuestro trágico universo"
  • "Nuestro trágico universo"@es

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