{"product_id":"puma-by-anthony-burgess-the-irwell-edition-of-the-works-of-anthony-burgess-9781526132734","title":"Puma: By Anthony Burgess (The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePuma: By Anthony Burgess (The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Burgess, Anthony. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781526132734.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePuma – 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118577344565,"sku":"ByrdShop_1526132737","price":46.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781526132734_530b8281-10f6-4b60-9162-8efb70cfce12.jpg?v=1781379268","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/puma-by-anthony-burgess-the-irwell-edition-of-the-works-of-anthony-burgess-9781526132734","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}