The only hint that something is amiss comes when the narrator states that he “couldn’t remember a lovelier evening before or after our world changed.” It is “sometime in the not-too-distant future.” And thus does a story unfold over a couple of summer months. They are talking, enjoying each other’s company. Two men are fishing in a stream near an old railroad bed.
Some books hit you in the gut and force you to think and this is one of them. "It frightens without being ridiculously nightmarish, it cautions without being too judgmental, and it offers glimmers of hope we don't have to read between the lines to comprehend.World Made by Hand is a beautifully written novel about a very difficult time, post-Peak Oil. "It frightens without being ridiculously nightmarish, it cautions without being too judgmental, and it offers glimmers of hope we don't have to read between the lines to comprehend." - Baltimore City Paper
"Brilliant." -Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune
In World Made by Hand, he offers a stark glimpse of that future in a work of speculative fiction that stands as "an impassioned and invigorating tale whose ultimate message is one of hope, not despair" ( San Francisco Chronicle). In his shocking nonfiction work, The Long Emergency, social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored the reality of what would happen if the engines stopped running. As the bonds of civilization are torn apart by war, famine, and violence, there are some who aim to carve out a new society: one in which might makes right-a world of tyranny, subjugation, and death. For Mayor Robert Earle, it is a battle to keep the citizens united. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, every day is a struggle. With deprivation came desperation-and desperation drove humanity backward to a state of existence few could have imagined. When Earth ran dry of oil, the age of the automobile came to an end electricity flickered out. In this "richly imagined" dystopian vision, mankind must find a way to survive as modern civilization slowly comes apart ( O, The Oprah Magazine).
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