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World Made by Hand: A Novel

World Made by Hand: A Novel
By James Howard Kunstler

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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.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #48263 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-02-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 1.35" h x 5.75" w x 8.57" l, 1.08 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 336 pages

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Kunstler's name is mostly associated with nonfiction works like The Long Emergency, a bleak prediction of what will happen when oil production no longer meets demand, and the antisuburbia polemic The Geography of Nowhere. In this novel, his 10th, he visits a future posited on his signature idea: when the oil wells start to run dry, the world economy will collapse and society as we know it will cease. Robert Earle has lost his job (he was a software executive) and family in the chaos following the breakdown. Elected mayor of Union Grove, N.Y., in the wake of a town crisis, Earle must rebuild civil society out of squabbling factions, including a cultish community of newcomers, an established group of Congregationalists and a plantation kept by the wealthy Stephen Bullock. Re-establishing basic infrastructure is a big enough challenge, but major tension comes from a crew of neighboring rednecks led by warlord Wayne Karp. Kunstler is most engaged when discussing the fate of the status quo and in divulging the particulars of daily life. Kunstler's world is convincing if didactic: Union Grove exists solely to illustrate Kunstler's doomsday vision. Readers willing to go for the ride will see a frightening and bleak future. (Mar.)
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Review
''Richly imagined.'' --O, The Oprah Magazine

''Far from a typical postapocalyptic novel. . . An impassioned and invigorating tale whose ultimate message is one of hope, not despair.'' -San Francisco Chronicle

''Brilliant.'' --Chicago Tribune

''World Made by Hand is an end-of-days novel that is more a pleasure than a burden to read.'' --Baltimore City Paper

About the Author
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER was born in New York City in 1948. He is the author of nine novels and three nonfiction books, including the bestselling The Long Emergency.

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