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Into the Forest: A Novel (Paperback)

by Jean Hegland (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback; Reprint edition (Sep 1 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553379615
ISBN-13: 978-0553379617
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 14.7 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 273 g

Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (98 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #62,518 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Jean Hegland's prose in Into the Forest is as breathtaking as one of the musty, ancient redwoods that share the woodland with Nell and Eva, two sisters who must learn to live in harmony with the northern California forest when the electricity shuts off, the phones go out, their parents die, and all civilization beyond them seems to grind to a halt. At first, the girls rely on stores of food left in their parents' pantry, but when those supplies begin to dwindle, their only option is to turn to each other and the forest's plants and animals for friendship, courage, and sustenance. Into the Forest, an apocalyptic coming-of-age story, will fill readers (both teens and adults) with a profound sense of the human spirit's strength and beauty. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Hegland's powerfully imagined first novel will make readers thankful for telephones and CD players while it underscores the vulnerability of lives dependent on technology. The tale is set in the near future: electricity has failed, mail delivery has stopped and looting and violence have destroyed civil order. In Northern California, 32 miles from the closest town, two orphaned teenage sisters ration a dwindling supply of tea bags and infested cornmeal. They remember their mother's warnings about the nearby forest, but as the crisis deepens, bears and wild pigs start to seem less dangerous than humans. From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the 17-year-old narrator pull the reader in, and the fight for survival adds an urgent edge to her coming-of-age story. Flashbacks smartly create a portrait of the lost family: an iconoclastic father, artistic mother and two independent daughters. The plot draws readers along at the same time that the details and vivid writing encourage rereading. Eating a hot dog starts with "the pillowy give of the bun," and the winter rains are "great silver needles stitching the dull sky to the sodden earth." If sometimes the lyricism goes a little too far, this is still a truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984 and Russell Hoban's Ridley Walker.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite book., Oct 24 2009

By	B. Roth "Dorkus Malorkus" (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well written, and the content is amazing. This is the most hopeful post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting and Beautiful, Oct 22 2009

By	Lee (Canada) - See all my reviews

This is a beautifully written book about two teenaged sisters who are left to fend for themselves after surviving the death of both parents.
The older sister Nell paints a lovely portrait of a family who live by their own rules, on a large plot of land 30 miles from the nearest town. The girls have a free range education at home, roaming the forest, following their own interests until slowly things begin to change. A series of events leaves the girls stranded on their homestead, surviving on dwindling stores, and no contact with the outside world.

As soon as I began reading this story, I was struck by how easily this could happen. All of the events felt real and possible. Our world seems very close to unraveling and this book brought immediately to my attention just how easily things could go awry. I asked myself if I have the skills and knowledge to survive in a world without electricity, access to food, heat, water, communication etc. Sadly, the answer is probably no. It was inspiring to read about how these girls learned to survive and at the same time deal with the extreme grief and loss of not only their family, but life as they knew it, their hopes and dreams. I found the choices they made at the end a little bit strange but it did not ruin the beauty of the story for me. 4.5 Stars.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Preserve Knowledge and Nature, Jul 16 2004

By	Stacey Cheatham (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews

This is a wonderful book. I am not prone to crying while reading a novel, but Hegland brings the characters so close to you, that I felt I was suffering with them. This is a novel that encourages you to preserve and cherish the natural world ...including yourself and your loved ones. And it reminds you that we are certainly overlooking the really beautiful and fundamental gifts from nature to grab at unnecessary things in this so-called civilization in which we live. This novel makes you want to turn inward, disconnect your phone, and absorb all the preserved knowledge that you can ingest. It made me want to fast on 'white tea' ... just to remind myself. And it reminds the reader that nations can come and go, but mankind is much stronger and far more beautiful when pressed to accept his true nature. For instance, Eva's civilized and refined dancer's stamina pales and appears weak in comparison to her endurance of pain during childbirth. As Eva groans against the violent pain, Nell thinks ... "They are sounds that move the earth, the sounds that give voice to the deep, violent fissures in the bark of the redwoods. They are the sounds of splitting cells, of bonding atoms, the sounds of the waxing moon and the forming stars".

I don't think readers should get caught up in the 'feminist' aspect or the 'plausibility of plot' concept. I think that even a man could see himself through Nell's view of the world. And I believe that the framework of the plot just serves as a springboard for exploring the human experience in a certain light. I hated to finish the book because I felt that I was losing a friend or at least moving away from home. Beautiful work!

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