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World Made by Hand [nitemayr's Review]

I love it when reviews make me gufaw out loud at work. Over at Local Blogger Writes the World, nitemayr liked his choice of World Made By Hand, but his one complaint about amorous character development made me laugh:

If I was to make any complaint, Robert (like many a post-apocalyptic hero before him) is an amzing man who cannot step through the day without being set upon by love crazed women; such is his sheer physical prowess.  By the time he had bed his second woman, I was already tired of the concept.  This stands as my only complaint about the novel and should be set aside as a personal complaint and no real black mark on the book itself.

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More Information 

• Author's Site: James Howard Kunstler 
• Book Site: World Made By Hand 
• Atlantic Monthly Press | Chapters.ca | Amazon.com

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages 
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (February 11, 2008) 
• ISBN-10: 0871139782 
• ISBN-13: 978-0871139788

World Made by Hand [James Howard Kunstler]

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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. 

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. 

About the Author 

James Howard Kunstler  is the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York 

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More Information 

• Author's Site: James Howard Kunstler 
• Book Site: World Made By Hand 
• Atlantic Monthly Press | Chapters.ca | Amazon.com

Product Details 

• 2 copies available  This book is probably CLAIMED 
• Hardcover: 336 pages 
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (February 11, 2008) 
• ISBN-10: 0871139782 
• ISBN-13: 978-0871139788

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