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Also by James Howard Kunstler:

World Made by Hand, March 2008
Hardcover
The Geography of Nowhere, July 1994
Paperback (reprint)

WORLD MADE BY HAND
By: James Howard Kunstler

Atlantic Monthly Press
March 2008
On Sale: February 28, 2008
336 pages
ISBN: 0871139782
EAN: 9780871139788
Hardcover
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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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