Puma: By Anthony Burgess

By Anthony Burgess

Puma - disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of the World News and published here for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess's lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy - the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its squalid glory. In Burgess's hands this meditation on destruction, mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and science at the end of the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526132737
• ISBN13: 9781526132734
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.5"