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How to build a home for the end of the World
How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a ro...
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| description | How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/32347 How to build a home for the end of the World Shinners, Keely Coovadia, Imraan English Language Literature How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates the ways in which people understand memory, healing, and redemption in the throes of of ever-unraveling crisis. 2020-10-29T11:30:24Z 2020-10-29T11:30:24Z 2020 2020-10-29T11:30:01Z Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32347 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities |
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| title | How to build a home for the end of the World |
| title_full | How to build a home for the end of the World |
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| title_short | How to build a home for the end of the World |
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