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Starting Over
By Cathleen Medwick
Oprah.com   |   From the March 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
World Made by Hand
World Made by Hand
By James Howard Kunstler
336 pages. Atlantic Monthly.


What's after Armageddon? No government, no laws, no infrastructure, no oil, no industry...and sometimes a sense of relief. In James Howard Kunstler's richly imagined World Made by Hand (Atlantic Monthly), the bone-weary denizens of Union Grove (with its echo of Our Town's Grover's Corners) cope with everything from mercenary thugs to religious extremists, yet manage to plant a few seeds of human decency that bear fruit.
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