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Synopsis
"How do you make sense of your life? Somewhere in London a film director is dying of cancer. His life's crowning achievement, his greatest film, would have told the story of a European village as the last hour of A.D. 999 approached, which the villagers were convinced would bring with it Armageddon. Now that story will never be told. But he's still pointlessly working it out in his head, making a film that no one will ever see. No one but us."--Page 4 of cover.
Is Signal to Noise appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This contemplative novel deals with a dying filmmaker imagining his final work about a medieval village facing the millennium. Themes of mortality, creative legacy, and existential meaning are central. No graphic content but emotionally mature.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include death and terminal illness.
Who'll love this
Readers interested in philosophical explorations of art, death, and storytelling will find this deeply moving.