Hauntingly beautiful Anthropocene fable from the bestselling author of Underland and The Lost Words.
Robert Macfarlane (Author) Robert Macfarlane is the author of Mountains of the Mind, The Wild Places, The Old Ways, Landmarks, and The Lost Words, co-created with Jackie Morris. Mountains of the Mind won the Guardian First Book Award and the Somerset Maugham Award and The Wild Places won the Boardman-Tasker Award. Both books have been adapted for television by the BBC. The Lost Words won the Books Are My Bag Beautiful Book Award and the Hay Festival Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and writes on environmentalism, literature and travel for publications including the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New York Times.Stanley Donwood (Author) Stanley Donwood is a graphic designer, artist and writer. He has worked with the British band Radiohead since 1994, producing the artwork for all their albums and promotional materials. He is also the author of numerous books including Catacombs of Terror!, Slowly Downward and Small Thoughts. His collaboration with Robert Macfarlane, Ness, will be published in November 2019.
Ness goes beyond what we expect books to do. Beyond poetry, beyond
the word, beyond the bomb - it is an aftertime song. It is dark,
ever so dark, nimble and lethal. It is a triumphant libretto of
mythic modernism for our poisoned age. Ness is something else, and
feels like it always has been.
*Max Porter*
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