The Witch of Hebron
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441772886 (144177288X)
Publish date: September 1st 2010
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 9
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Survival,
Environment,
Speculative Fiction,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: World Made by Hand (#2)
The greatest value of this book (and its prequel, World Made by Hand), is the world it describes. That world is the community of Union Grove in the northeastern (former) US after the collapse of industrial civilization. What that collapse entails can be gleaned from Kunstler's nonfiction book, The L...
While the characters and plot had promise, the effect of the novel felt very hollow to me. I can only point to the prose itself, where phrases were coined from cerebral rather than visual or emotional words. Some moments were evident where the writer tried to be writer-ly, which threw a wet blanket ...
I really enjoyed this book, even more than I enjoyed the first book, World Made By Hand. I liked the character of Jasper as he developed through the book and the descriptions of food left my mouth watering. while you only get to glimpse on small slice of this very changed world, that is realistic to...
Absolutely LOVED both this and World Made by Hand. They're sort of post-apocalyptic/literary novels sprinkled with a healthy dose of magical realism. I picked up the books because someone compared my debut novel, Ashfall, to them. Now that I've read Kunstler, I know just how flattering that comparis...
13 years ago
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