Book Reviews
Bleak, despondent and dangerous landscapes are the setting for Steven Amsterdam’s exploration of what might happen when the world seems about to end, or at least to change catastrophically.
This territory is reminiscent of that explored so memorably by Cormac McCarthy in The Road; there are elements of it also in the movie Legion,or in Meg Rosoff’s novel How I Live Now or even in The Children of Men by PD James. But Amsterdam is independent of all those other, and even earlier, narratives of environmental, political, economic and ethical disasters — not least by being funnier.
