The new wilderness : a novel
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The new wilderness : a novel

By Cook, Diane, 1976- author.

Genre Dystopias.

Audience Adults

Published [2020] by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY

ISBN 9780062333131

Bib Id 1081881

Copyright 2020

Edition First edition.

Description 398 pages ; 24 cm

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ISBN
9780062333131 (hardcover) $28.00
0062333135
9780062333148 (paperback) $17.00
0062333143
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FIC Cook
Title
The new wilderness : a novel
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[2020] by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY :
Copyright Date
©2020
Description
398 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for power and control as they betray and save one another. But as Agnes embraces the wild freedom of this new existence, Bea realizes that saving her daughter's life means losing her in a different way. The farther they get from civilization, the more their bond is tested in astonishing and heartbreaking ways"--
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Dystopias.
Dystopian fiction

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