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Far North

✍ Scribed by Theroux, Marcel

Book ID: 109292315
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 222 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780374153533

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✦ Synopsis

Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.**
_My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.

_ Out on the frontier __ of a failed state, Makepeace--sheriff and perhaps last citizen--patrols a city's ruins, salvaging books but keeping the guns in good repair.

Into this cold land comes shocking evidence that life might be flourishing elsewhere: a refugee emerges from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to reconnect with human society and take to the road, armed with rough humor and an unlikely ration of optimism.

What Makepeace finds is a world...

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