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Atlantic Monthly Press
March 2008
On Sale: February 28, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0871139782
EAN: 9780871139788
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Fiction
In the best-seller The Long Emergency, James Howard
Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production
had the potential to put industrial civilization out of
business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an
imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and
shows us what life may be like after these coming
catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global
pandemics, and resource wars—converge. For the townspeople
of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they
thought it would be. Transportation is slow and
dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time
and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There
may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but
people aren’t sure. As the heat of summer intensifies, the
residents struggle with the new way of life in a world of
abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the
fields and rivers replenished with fish. A captivating,
utterly realistic novel, World Made by Hand takes
speculative fiction beyond the apocalypse and shows what
happens when life gets extremely local.
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