This Is the Way the World Ends
| Book | This Is the Way the World Ends |
| Publisher | Open Road Integrated Media |
| Copyright Holder | James Morrow |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Mauricio Diaz |
| Format | e-Book |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York |
| Copyright | 1986 |
| This Edition Published | 2013 |
| ISBN 13 | 978-1-4804-3860-6 |
| Chapters | PROLOGUE: Salon-de-Provence, France, 1554 BOOK ONE: Those Who Favor Fire Chapter 1: In Which Our Hero Is Introduced and Taught the True Facts Concerning Strategic Doctrine and Civil Defense Chapter 2: In Which Our Hero’s Daughter is Shielded from the True Facts Concerning Sea Gulls Chapter 3: In Which the United States of America Is Transformed into a Safe, White Country Chapter 4: In Which Our Hero Is Asked to Sign a Most Unusual Sales Contract Chapter 5: In Which the Limitations of Civil Defense Are Explicated in a Manner Some Readers May Find Distressing Chapter 6: In Which a Sea Captain, a General, a Therapist, and a Man of God Enter the Tale Chapter 7: In Which Our Hero Makes a Strategic Decision and Acquires a Reason Not to Curse God and Die Chapter 8: In Which Our Hero Witnesses Some of the Many Surprising Effects of Nuclear War, Including Sundeath, Timefolds, and Unadmittance Chapter 9: In Which by Taking a Step Backward the City of New York Brings Our Hero a Step Forward Chapter 10: In Which Our Hero Learns that Extinction Is as Unkind to the Past as It Is to the Future ENTR’ACTE: Salon-de-Provence, France, 1554 BOOK TWO: For Destruction Ice Is Also Great Chapter 11: In Which Our Hero Is Treated like a Common Criminal and Endures an Uncommon Torture Chapter 12: In Which It Is Shown that the End of the World Was More Necessary than Previously Supposed Chapter 13: In Which the Prosecution’s Case Is Said to Be a Grin without a Cat Chapter 14: In Which the Nuclear Warriors Have Their Day in Court Chapter 15: In Which Our Hero Learns that One Person on Earth Was Less Guilty than He Chapter 16: In Which the Essential Question is Answered and Something Very Much Like Justice is Served Chapter 17: In Which Orange Trees Sprout Nooses and Our Hero Is Reunited with His Vulture Chapter 18: In Which Our Hero and His Mate Visit a Garden of Ice and One of Earthly Delights Chapter 19: In Which Information Is Conveyed Suggesting that Nostradamus Saw the Truth and Leonardo da Vinci Painted It Chapter 20: In Which a Most Unusual Yuletide Is Celebrated Including Present and a Tree Chapter 21: In Which Our Hero Crowns a Madman, Carves an Epitaph, and Sees a Constellation EPILOGUE: Salon-de-Provence, France, 1554 Acknowledgements Author’s Note About the Author |
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