Only the Astronauts: The transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals

The transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals

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ISBN: 9781760896775
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 7 May, 2024
Format: Paperback
Editions:
2 other editions of this product

A transformative new collection from the award-winning author of Only the Animals. Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history sweeter and stranger. Starman, a lovelorn mannequin orbiting the Sun in his cherry-red car, pines for his creator. The first sculpture ever taken to the Moon is possessed by the spirit of Neil Armstrong. The International Space Station, awaiting deorbit and burial in a spacecraft cemetery beneath the ocean, farewells its last astronauts. A team of tamponauts sets off on a perilous mission to Mars inspired by the courage of their predecessors. The Voyager 1 space probe - carrying its precious Golden Record - is captured by Oortians near the edge of the solar system and drawn into their baroque, glimmering rituals. By turns joyous and mournful, these object-astronauts are not high priests of the universe but something a little . . . weirder. From their inverted perspectives, they observe humans both intimately and from a great distance, bearing witness to a civilisation unable to live up to its own ideals. And yet each still finds in our planet - in their humans - something worthy of love. PRAISE FOR CERIDWEN DOVEY'S ONLY THE ANIMALS 'Mesmerizing and exhilarating. A major mind announcing itself.' Anna Funder 'Transmitted to us with a light touch and no trace of sentimentality.' J.M. Coetzee 'Wholly extraordinary.' Michelle de Kretser 'A fable-like surface, and a whole churning world beneath.' The Guardian 'A form of lyrical anthropology.' Canberra Times 'Anarchic brilliance.' The Age

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