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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Release Year
- 2023
- Features
- Manuscript
- ISBN
- 9781668003947
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1668003945
ISBN-13
9781668003947
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3057278803
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hopkins Manuscript : a Novel
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Classics, Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Literary
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-044201
Reviews
"I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned British stoicism with ease. Magical" --Jeff Noon, Spectator "A glorious comic novel about the end of the world... RC Sherriff's novel, like all great speculative fiction, rests not on its plausibility, but on the glimpses it shows us of our own face... The book crackles with juxtapositions of the everyday and the extraordinary... What a weird and brilliant talent he had... Hopkins... was his finest hour." --Andrew Hunter Murray, The Times (UK) "Spectacular, skilled and moving and supremely and alarmingly relevant to our life today." --Fay Weldon, The Observer (UK) "Intensely readable and touching." -- Sunday Telegraph (UK), "A terrific, chilling, sometimes funny novel about the end of the world." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Chillingly relevant." -- The Washington Post "This wonderful, disturbingly relevant novel inaugurated a genre of dystopian fiction in which the hero survives the apocalypse." -- The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A triumph... masterfully captures the way the graspable and mundane can overpower the incomprehensibility of existential threat. Though written more than 75 years ago about a world without internet or television, The Hopkins Manuscript manages to feel entirely contemporary." -- Booklist, *starred review* "This wonderful novel should powerfully resonate with readers whose consciences are troubled by inequality and climate change... Like Kazuo Ishiguro, Sherriff is a master at framing a story through the narrator's circumscribed point of view." -- Alec Nevala-Lee, The New York Times Book Review "This delivers on multiple levels... It has the effect of H.G. Wells rewritten by Evelyn Waugh, and the narrator's reflections continue to resonate... Sherriff's a confident and graceful stylist." -- Publishers Weekly "I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned British stoicism with ease. Magical" --Jeff Noon, Spectator "A glorious comic novel about the end of the world... RC Sherriff's novel, like all great speculative fiction, rests not on its plausibility, but on the glimpses it shows us of our own face... The book crackles with juxtapositions of the everyday and the extraordinary... What a weird and brilliant talent he had... Hopkins... was his finest hour." --Andrew Hunter Murray, The Times (UK) "Spectacular, skilled and moving and supremely and alarmingly relevant to our life today." --Fay Weldon, The Observer (UK) "Intensely readable and touching." -- Sunday Telegraph (UK), "Chillingly relevant." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "This wonderful, disturbingly relevant novel inaugurated a genre of dystopian fiction in which the hero survives the apocalypse." -- The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "A triumph... masterfully captures the way the graspable and mundane can overpower the incomprehensibility of existential threat. Though written more than 75 years ago about a world without internet or television, The Hopkins Manuscript manages to feel entirely contemporary." -- Booklist, *starred review* "This wonderful novel should powerfully resonate with readers whose consciences are troubled by inequality and climate change... Like Kazuo Ishiguro, Sherriff is a master at framing a story through the narrator's circumscribed point of view." -- Alec Nevala-Lee, The New York Times Book Review "This delivers on multiple levels... It has the effect of H.G. Wells rewritten by Evelyn Waugh, and the narrator's reflections continue to resonate... Sherriff's a confident and graceful stylist." -- Publishers Weekly "I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned British stoicism with ease. Magical" --Jeff Noon, Spectator "A glorious comic novel about the end of the world... RC Sherriff's novel, like all great speculative fiction, rests not on its plausibility, but on the glimpses it shows us of our own face... The book crackles with juxtapositions of the everyday and the extraordinary... What a weird and brilliant talent he had... Hopkins... was his finest hour." --Andrew Hunter Murray, The Times (UK) "Spectacular, skilled and moving and supremely and alarmingly relevant to our life today." --Fay Weldon, The Observer (UK) "Intensely readable and touching." -- Sunday Telegraph (UK)
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Synopsis
A stunning speculative novel about a small English village preparing of the end of the world. Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn that the moon is on a collision course with the earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy, but eventually the moon begins to loom so large in the sky that the truth can no longer be denied. During these final days, Edgar writes what he calls "The Hopkins Manuscript"--a testimony juxtaposing the ordinary and extraordinary as the villagers dig trenches and play cricket before the end of days. First published in 1939, as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, R.C. Sherriff's classic science fiction novel is a timely and powerful missive from the past that captures human nature in all its complexity.
LC Classification Number
PR6037.H513H67 2023
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- o***b (67)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseLovely little Moorcroft vase, exactly as pictured. Very fairly priced. Fast shipping, with item arriving well packaged and in perfect condition. Helpful, friendly seller who was quick to respond to questions and other communications. Would absolutely buy from this seller again!William Moorcroft Pottery 4" vase - in original box (#405697407779)
- b***b (6)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseOne part of our order was not shipped, but when I contacted the seller, the response was apologetic and swift. They sent the additional part right away. All of the items work as described. I would buy from this seller again. THANK YOU for the excellent customer service!