{"product_id":"so-far-gone-9780062868152","title":"So Far Gone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original.\"--Ann Patchett, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e--and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis' \u003ci\u003eTrue Grit\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRhys 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003ci\u003eSo Far Gone\u003c\/i\u003e 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\" (\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jess Walter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.32w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062868152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter, Jess:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJess Walter\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers \u003cem\u003eSo Far Gone, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Cold Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/em\u003e, the National Book Award Finalist \u003cem\u003eThe Zero\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCitizen Vince, \u003c\/em\u003e winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Angel of Rome\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWe Live in Water\u003c\/em\u003e, has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in \u003cem\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jess Walter \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48449343455389,"sku":"9780062868152","price":22.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2653db07-7ba0-4957-82d3-ea1090c1df3f.jpg?v=1781632501","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/so-far-gone-9780062868152","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}