Ebook {Epub PDF} Far North by Marcel Theroux

 · Far North by Marcel Theroux--Audiobook Excerpt. Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Marcel Theroux's novel Far North, a National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. 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. Share This.  · 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. Marcel Theroux is the author of A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, and.  · Far North takes the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its possible end. Haunting, spare, yet stubbornly hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Marcel Theroux is the author of four novels, A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and most recently, Far North, which is a National Book Award Finalist. He lives in London. Marcel Theroux's Far North () has precisely this effect. There are many technical and stylistic aspects that could have been improved, but at its core, the story is readily relatable, a sliver of humanism tucked in amongst the warts. Makepeace is sheriff of an abandoned town. An unnamed catastrophe having wiped out the majority of people. Far North by Marcel Theroux starting at $ Far North has 5 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.

Aug. 13, In Marcel Theroux’s postcollapse ­novel, “Far North,” global warming has reduced civilization to largely pre­industrial levels of technology and made sparsely populated. Post-apocalypse survival tales seem to be all the rage at the moment, with Marcel Theroux's latest novel, "Far North", joining the growing ranks of books providing a gaunt vision of a not too distant future, in which mankind is reduced to a basic, brutal struggle for survival in a world torn apart by warfare, plague and environmental disaster. Far North, by Marcel Theroux, HarperCollins Canada, pages, $ Science fiction snatched up the torch with such classics as Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.