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Series
World made by hand novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is nothing like 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. Their challenges play out in a world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields, and rivers no longer polluted...
Author
Series
World made by hand novel volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. Travel is horse-drawn and farming is back at the center of life, but Union Grove is no pastoral haven. Wars are fought over dwindling resources and illness is a constant presence. Bandits roam the countryside, preying on the weak and a sinister cult threatens to shatter the town's fragile...
Author
Series
World made by hand novel volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones....
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The residents of Union Grove, New York, struggle to get through early spring after a local tycoon halts the Hudson River trade route.
From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, "The Harrows of Spring" concludes the quartet of his extraordinary World Made By Hand novels, set in an American future of economic and political collapse, where electricity, automobiles, and the familiar social structures...
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