The Old Man and the Wasteland: Updated Edition
- ISBN-10
- 0062268538
- ISBN-13
- 9780062268532
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 100
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-22
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Nick Cole
Description
Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken world. One survivor's most prized possession is Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea. With the words of the novel echoing across the wasteland, a living victim of the Nuclear Holocaust journeys into the unknown to break a curse. What follows is an incredible tale of grit and endurance. A lone traveler must survive the desert wilderness and mankind gone savage to discover the truth of Hemingway's classic tale of man versus nature. Now with a new introduction by author Nick Cole.
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