false 18559049 669716 1689657 0871139782 9780871139788 261 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186944958m/1689657.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186944958s/1689657.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689657.World_Made_by_Hand_A_Novel 3.47 692 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.</div>]]> 47834 3.76 2251 614 2008 3 2 false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 19:47:57 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 18:06:40 -0700 2008 more...]]>