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Bezig met laden... World Made By Hand (2008)door James Howard Kunstler
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. If you have an interest in issues surrounding Peak Oil or the overall tenuous nature of our economic system this work of fiction may be of interest to you. A quick read. ( ) A moving, violent but also elegiac account of a small town, Union Grove, in post-apocalyptic upstate New York. With no electricity, all work must be done by hand. This doesn't only refer to the labor that people undertake to feed, shelter, and clothe themselves, but also to the work of justice, of remaking a system in which people feel safe. Kunstler's hero examines the temptation to settle matters with extralegal violence instead of the more civilized rules of law, and the results are troubling. This is a wholly believable world, and the book is the first of a series (followed by The Witch of Hebron in 2010 and A History of the Future in 2014). It's been a while since I've read a post-apocalypse novel. I actually ended up enjoying this quite a bit - with a lot of books like this I feel like I'm just rooting for the protagonists to work it all out and fix the world, but with Union Grove it feels more like wanting people to find a new way to live. The ending is a little bit of a disappointment but overall I really enjoyed this.
No one can predict the future, and I doubt our future will be much like the one depicted here, but I think its possible that Kunstler has come closer to showing us what's in store than anyone else. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Prijzen
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HTML: In The Long Emergency, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production combined with climate change had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few decades hence, after these catastrophes converge. The electricity has flickered out. The automobile age is over. In Union Grove, a little town in upstate New York, the future is nothing like people thought it would be. Life is hard and close to the bone. 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. The townspeople's challenges play out in a dazzling, fully realized world of abandoned highways and empty houses, horses working the fields and rivers, no longer polluted, and replenished with fish. This is the story of Robert Earle and his fellow townspeople and what happens to them one summer in a country that has changed profoundly. A powerful tale of love, loss, violence, and desperation, World Made by Hand is also lyrical and tender, a surprising story of a new America struggling to be bornâ??a story more relevant now than ever. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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