Book
The new wilderness : a novel / Diane Cook.
Print run 50,000.
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 been forbidden. Until now. 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, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredicatble, 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 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. -- From back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062333148
- ISBN: 0062333143
- Physical Description: 395 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First Harper Perennial edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2021.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | [Trade Paperback] "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2020 by HarperCollins." |
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| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Air > Pollution > Fiction. Overpopulation > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Civilization > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Dystopian fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | PAPERBACK (Text) | 26040003452972 | Recreational Reading | Volume hold | Available | - |
