World Made by Hand
The World Made by Hand Novels: Book #1
- By: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Description
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 born—a story more relevant now than ever.
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The World Made by Hand Novels Series
World Made by Hand
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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The Witch of Hebron
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In the sequel to his bestselling World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with this novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, travel is horse-drawn... Read more »
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A History of the Future
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A History of theFuture is the third thrilling novel in Kunstler’s World Made by Handseries, an exploration of family and morality as played out in the small townof Union Grove.
Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century—thepandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos—peopleare doing whatever they can to get... Read more »
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The Harrows of Spring
By: James Howard Kunstler
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, The Harrows of Spring concludes the quartet of his extraordinary World Made by Hand novels, set in an American future of economic and political collapse, where electricity, automobiles, and the familiar social structures of the “old times” are a misty... Read more »
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