Through darkest America - Hardcover

Barrett Jr., Neal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865531846 ISBN 13: 9780865531840

Publisher: Congdon and Weed, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Barrett, Neal

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Another in the new Isaac Asimov Presents series (see above), this provocative novel is set in a world that nuclear war has almost decimated of cities, technology and large animals. To replace farm livestock, the country's sole source of meat is genetically altered humans, without intelligence or speech. A distant civil war out west, its harsh taxes and harsher collectors, force Howie Ryder to flee his family's Tennessee farm. He falls in with outlaw Pardo, who signs on with a big meat drive only to rustle it and playsand preys onboth sides in running guns. Barrett's SF rendering of this latter-day civil war comes complete with a version of slavery, cavalry charges and a young boy representing the country's coming of age. The romantic narrative skillfully moves from a well-told if familiar story of war and the western frontier to areas of ambiguity and uncertainty that readers are left to answer for themselves.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Congdon and Weed
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0865531846
• ISBN 13: 9780865531840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275