Apocalypse Pretty Soon
Travels In End-Time America
$36.10
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2000
Summary
The inspired madness of America’s apocalyptic and pre-millennial organizations may have reached a fever pitch with the turn of the twenty-first century, but intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard spent a ten-year period witnessing the crescendo firsthand.
Heard’s enthusiasm led him on errands as diverse as being a voyeur at a Republic of Texas militia standoff, accompanying an expectant UFO “greeting party” to a remote field in Minnesota, and enacting the grief of the California quail …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385498524 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385498527 |
| Author: | Alex Heard |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 439g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
“A frequently hilarious traipse through the bizarro netherworld of millennial and utopian subcultures.”
–Washington Post Book World
“Apocalypse Pretty Soon is a funny must-read for anyone looking for a respite from doom-and-gloom offerings currently on the bookstore shelves.”
–Chicago Tribune
“Funny, unsettling, crank-packed…an all-American take on the looming exclamation point at the end of history.”
–Entertainment Weekly
“Heard is an engaging writer: witty, not snide, not superior…turn to the chapter titled ‘Death, Be Not in My Face,’ read it, and I think you will agree: This is not simply silly stuff; this is the human comedy.”
–Katherine Powers, Boston Globe
About The Author
Alex Heard
Alex Heard is an editor at Wired magazine. He has also edited and written for The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The New Republic, Slate, and many other publications.
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