So Far Gone

"As talented a natural storyteller as is working in American fiction." -- Washington Post From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins comes a lively, smart, and deliciously funny new novel in the vein of True Grit, about a reclusive journalist who is suddenly thrown into a wild, suspenseful journey to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren. A few weeks after the 2016 election, at Thanksgiving with his daughter and her belligerent new husband, Rhys Kinnick finally snapped. After an escalating fight about politics, he hauled off and punched the jerk. Immediately horrified by what he''d done, by the state of the world around him and by his own spiraling mental health, Rhys chucked his smartphone out the car window and fled for a remote cabin in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Seven years later, when his grandchildren show up on his doorstep, Rhys barely recognizes them. Their mother has disappeared, and they need a safer place to stay than with their father, who has taken up with a Christian Nationalist militia. So what if Rhys''s cabin has no electricity or indoor plumbing, and the racoons help themselves to the monthly grocery haul? He''ll do whatever he needs to for these sweet kids. But when the militia members show up and kidnap the children, Rhys realizes he''ll have to re-enter the broken world. With the help of a bipolar retired detective and his caustic ex-girlfriend, Rhys reluctantly heads off on a madcap journey through the rubble of the life he left behind.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jess Walter is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers So Far Gone, The Cold Millions, and Beautiful Ruins, the National Book Award Finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. As a reporter, he was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Ruby Ridge. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.

Zusammenfassung

National Bestseller
"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
"Searing and sublime … Walter is a slyly adept social critic, and has clearly invested his protagonist with all of the outrage and heartbreak he himself feels about the dark course our world has taken ... What gets us all through … are novels like this one.” Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

Bericht

"So Far Gone is a marvel-a taut literary thriller that is also a moving, deeply humane exploration of the way one family falls apart and puts itself back together in a moment of crisis. Jess Walter is a prodigiously talented novelist, a writer willing to confront some of the most important and divisive issues of our time without losing his nerve or his sense of humor. " - Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers
"The characters are created with loving care, the plot with reckless glee; Walter seems as fed up with various aspects of modern life as the smartphone-hating Rhys, and gives his version of the modern Northwest a distinctly Old West vibrational overlay....Walter is a beacon of wit, decency, and style." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"I loved this book, and marveled how Jess Walter managed to build such a warm, funny, loving novel out of so many horrible parts. It's an American original." - Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake
"A tumultuous road trip through a tumultuous America."
- Washington Post, Books to Watch for in 2025
"Like Station Eleven and The Handmaid's Tale, this novel by Walter (The Angels of Rome and Other Stories) feels both prescient and timely yet with a backward glance....Gritty survivalist stories, from bunkers to bar rooms, converge in this propulsive novel that glances backward to 2016 while signaling what dangers come to fruition when people relinquish human bonds in favor of ideological fervor....This work is a tremendous achievement... with an urgency that may make it one of the strongest realist but dystopian novels of the present era." - Library Journal (starred review)
"There is both hurt and healing in So Far Gone in its depiction of both a society that can seem so far gone down the wrong road and people who want to do the right thing." - Daily Kos
"Jess Walter's 'So Far Gone' is so far, soooo good....A compelling tale of a broken America and the struggles of the everyday few to try and bring back some semblance of being united... This is a romp in the style of the best of Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett,....a noir style thriller that follows the conflict lived by every family that has gathered for Thanksgiving after 2015." - The Spokesman-Review
"Who better to give us the latest version of a recluse with a heart of gold than Walter? . . . It's a gleeful, kooky and tender homage to Charles Portis' True Grit with echoes of Tom Robbins and yes, Elinor Lipman too." - Los Angeles Times
"A tremendous achievement. . . . Like Station Eleven and The Handmaid's Tale, this novel by Walter feels both prescient and timely yet with a backward glance . . . with an urgency that may make it one of the strongest realist but dystopian novels of the present era." - Library Journal (starred review)
"Propulsive. . . . Walter serves up a rollicking and heartrending adventure about a broken man determined to set things right in an increasingly divided America. . . . This captivates." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A buoyant, witty caper." - New York Times
"Jess Walter has done it again." - The Advocate
"A quick read-the kind you can definitely finish in a couple summer afternoons-Jess Walter's latest crackles with the author's wit, even whilst immersing itself in the thick of modern American woes. So Far Gone's protagonist...is pulled into a zany adventure (with an equally entertaining ensemble cast) as he attempts to bring his family back together." - Elle

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jess Walter, Walter Jess
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9780062868145
• ISBN: 978-0-06-286814-5
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Thriller / suspense fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Satirical fiction and parodies, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Action & Adventure, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Small Town & Rural *, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Cultural Heritage, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Psychological, LITERATURE: FAMILY, Adventure / action fiction, Literature / General Fiction, Literature / Family