![]() ![]() One member of the community is a carpenter, so sagging porches are fixed, usually by taking wood beams from a nearby house that's collapsing. ![]() They take no initiative they don't learn to farm, or domesticate animals, to store food of any sort, to sew, tan, harvest, plant, graft, create or make much of anything. ![]() Through most of the book, Ish and his extended family just get by. It's not very encouraging to watch though. Stewart assumes that people will survive, will manage. There's both a naiveté, if you will, and a crystalline awareness of the human ability to destroy and to survive. Much of Earth Abides tells the story not only of Ish, but of the impact of such devastation on countless forms of life: everything from beetles to drugs, clothing to domesticated animals.Įarth Abides was originally published in 1949. Isherwood Williams is one of a handful of people who survive the devastation. It tells a story of environmental catastrophe in a post-apocalyptic Earth a vision of the planet after a massive disaster.Ī pandemic wipes out most of the world's human and animal population. Stewartīallantine/Del Rey trade paperback edition (1949 copyright)Įarth Abides is a contemporary reprint of one of the early modern novels. ![]()
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