The New Wilderness

Diane Cook

Harper

Literature & Fiction

Literary

HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 "The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure." --Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful&nbsp;book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, MAN V. NATURE.&nbsp; 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. Until now.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; At once a blazing lament of our contempt for nature and a deeply humane portrayal of motherhood and what it means to be human, The New Wilderness is an extraordinary novel from a one-of-a-kind literary force.

Though Paul Gauguin was considered a failure during his own time, history paints Gauguin as one of the leading French Post-Impressionists. He developed a conceptual method of representation, using pure color, strong lines, and two-dimensional patterns. This book presents the life of Gauguin through the eyes of his daughter, Aline.

Paul Gauguin (Great Names)

Children's Books

Yan Thomas

Biographies

Mason Crest

Man v. Nature

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oneworld Publications

The New Wilderness By Diane Cook & The Push Mother Daughter Angel Monster? By Ashley Audrain 2 Books Collection Set

Ashley Audrain

Michael Joseph/Oneworld Publications

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