false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173328709m/274520.jpg 274520 1 <p>An edgy and hilarious novel about one young man&#8217;s attempt to alert his friends to the cataclysm sure to arrive on New Year&#8217;s Eve, 1999<br><br>It&#8217;s 1998. Or, as Randall Knight sees it, Y2K minus two. Randall, a twenty-five-year-old children&#8217;s singer and puppeteer, has discovered the clock is ticking toward a worldwide technological cataclysm. But he may still be able to save his loved ones&#8212;if he can convince them to prepare for the looming catastrophe. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s quit his job, moved into his car, and set out to sound the alarm. <i>The End as I Know It</i> follows Randall on his coast-to-coast Cassandra tour. His itinerary includes the elementary schools that have booked him as a guest performer and the friends and relatives he must awaken to the crisis. When nobody will heed his warning, Randall spirals into despair and self-destruction as he races from one futile visit to the next. At the end of his rope, he lands with a family of newly minted survivalists in rural Texas. There, he meets a woman who might help him transcend his millennial fears and build a new life out of the shards of his old one.<br><br>Like Walter Kirn&#8217;s novel <i>Up in the Air</i>, <i>The End as I Know It</i> is a high-concept look at American culture that is by turns hilarious and poignant, and it manages to recall a memorable period in very recent history while at the same time shedding light on our current social moment.</p> 266191 2006 The End As I Know It: A Novel of Millennial Anxiety total:13|5:2|4:5|3:3|2:3|1:0| 13 45 18 4 274520 0385518218 9780385518215 13 4 3.46 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173328709m/274520.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/274520.The_End_As_I_Know_It_A_Novel_of_Millennial_Anxiety 4 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 07:34:34 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 07:56:30 -0700 2007
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