- Environmental disasters, Petroleum reserves, Civilization, Fiction
In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Howard Kunstler
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 334
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780802119612
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