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Item Details
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APOCALYPSE PRETTY SOON
TRAVELS IN END-TIME AMERICA |
| By: |
Alexander Heard |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393046893 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393046892 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1999 |
| Pages: |
254 |
| Description: |
A look at millennial, utopian, and futuristic subcultures. Among the characters encountered are: a UFO cult whose members look forward to the landing of Angelic Space Brothers in 2001, and New Age penitents who fear our polluted planet is bent on taking highly-conscious revenge. |
| Synopsis: |
Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveller Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers - sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their own all-American spin to the biblical idea of the apocalypse. This is a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian and futuristic subcultures. Among the cast of characters encountered are: a UFO cult whose members look forward to the mass landing of Angelic Space Brothers in 2001; trembling New Age penitents who fear our polluted planet is bent on taking highly-conscious revenge; a born-again Christian determined, on God's orders, to carry a 12-foot cross across every nation on earth; life-extensionists convinced that if they can only live long enough, science will make sure that they live forever; and a collection of other paranoid, credulous, and/or ecstatic countrymen. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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