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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 unraveling: stockaded villages
enforcing an uncertain
justice and hidden work
camps laboring to harness
the little-understood
technologies of a vanished
civilization. But
Makepeace’s journey—rife
with danger—also leads to an
unexpected redemption.
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 its ability to
recover from our worst
trespasses.
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Marcel Theroux is the
critically acclaimed author
of A Blow to the Heart,
The Paperchase,
winner of the 2002 Somerset
Maugham Award, and A
Stranger in the Earth.
He is also a successful
broadcaster. Born in Uganda,
he was raised in London,
England, where he currently
resides.
2009
Awards
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National
Literary Foundation
and
National
Literary Awards - P. O.
Box 11203 -
Chicago, ILLinois. 60611 -
info@nationalliteraryfoundation.com
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