{"product_id":"9781551528731","title":"My Volcano","description":"Author: John Elizabeth Stintzi\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781551528731\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Aug 2022\u003cbr\u003ePages: 360\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne morning a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, that three weeks later will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world. My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a cast of characters experiencing private and collective eruptions: a boy in Mexico City finds himself 500 years in the past; a scholar in Tokyo studies a story about a woman coming down a mountain to destroy villages; a trans writer in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilisation on an impossible planet; a nurse works with Syrian refugees in Greece as she tries to grapple with the trauma of surviving an American bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan; a nomadic herder in Mongolia finds himself transformed into a thorned, flowering creature trying to assimilate every living thing on Earth into its consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;With the panoramic scope and astute sharpness of Samanta Schweblin's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and the eerie chill of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy, John Elizabeth Stintzi's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e immediately grabs you by the shirt and doesn\u0026amp;#x27;t let you go. Structured like a spiral moving through time and space, and deftly mixing history and myth and vision with poetic prose, this dread-inducing book will keep you up at night until you get to its last devastating, but ultimately, I think, hopeful line. - Alicia Elliott, bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Mind Spread Out on the Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A kaleidoscopic, contemporary folktale with added acerbic juice, like when Dylan went electric. Stintzi somehow funnels the tumultuous present into a sprawling novel of collision and connection that's both timely and timeless. This is very weird shit indeed.\u0026amp;#x27; - Hazel Jane Plante, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;My Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a fast-paced, gripping, singular novel that belongs to the new wave of eco-horror yielding to no conventions.\u0026amp;#x27; - Fernando A. Flores, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTears of the Trufflepig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830035271838,"sku":"ADS-9781551528731","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781551528731.jpg?v=1778558608","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781551528731","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}