World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

In The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production combined with climate change had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. The electricity has flickered out. The automobile age is over. In Union Grove, a little town in upstate New York, the future is nothing like people thought it would be. Life is hard and close to the bone. 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. The townspeople's challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. This is the story of Robert Earle and his fellow townspeople and what happens to them one summer in a country that has changed profoundly. A powerful tale of love, loss, violence, and desperation, World Made by Hand is also lyrical and tender, a surprising story of a new America struggling to be born--a story more relevant now than ever.

James Howard Kunstler has written eight novels and two nonfiction volumes, The Geography of Nothing and Home from Nowhere. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Metropolis, among other publications.

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ISBN 13	9780871139788
ISBN 10	0871139782
Title	World Made by Hand
Author	James Howard Kunstler
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	2008-02-11
Number of pages	336
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