- Fiction, Environmentalism, Economic conditions, Natural disasters
In the wake of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- James Howard Kunstler
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Distributed by Publishers Group West, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780871139788
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