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In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of war, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal industrialism reflecting an ancestral tendency to violence. Only the enchanted realm of childhood – that of Éléonore, the matriarch, and that of Jérôme, the last in the lineage – and the innate freedom of the animals offer any respite from the visible barbarity of humanity. 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Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time.  What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease – or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species’ trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light?The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education.  By giving “access to tools”, a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. Compiled, edited and with a foreword by Denise Rose Hansen.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492284735861,"sku":"9781999992828","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781999992828.jpg?v=1786529118"},{"product_id":"the-ravaged-night","title":"The Ravaged Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet suburb in the mid-1990s, nothing ever seems to happen. 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Once the gang crosses its threshold, they find that, somehow, the house seems to know them – showing them what they long for most, feeding on their fears, their shame, their secret rage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the line between nightmare and waking life erodes, the group is forced to confront not only the house’s sinister power, but the violence, cruelty and despair festering inside their families and their town. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exhilarating celebration of Stephen King and late twentieth-century horror films, \u003cem\u003eThe Ravaged Night\u003c\/em\u003e is an exceptional coming-of-age novel by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, one of France’s most ambitious and exacting writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507600269685,"sku":"9781804273043","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804273043.jpg?v=1787042609"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jean-baptiste-del-amo.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}