Helpful Score: 2
Set in a future where the U.S. has been devastated by chemical warfare, setting society back to a rugged, pre-industrial standard of living, this book is at heart a 'Beauty and the Beast' story of blossoming love.
Helpful Score: 1
"Unlike many post-holocaust stories that offer Huck Finns wandering the wasteland, this charming, unpretentious novel delves into a different form of the pastoral, modeling itself on Thoreauvian attention to a person's place and moral actions in the sphere's of nature, society, intellect, and the like.â
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