So Far Gone
First published 2025
Reception
Rave reviews. 12 of 17 critics gave a rave.
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“Searing and sublime”
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“It’s a great hook that draws you in and doesn’t really let up for the next 256 pages”
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“[A] buoyant, witty caper … Walter’s affinity for his quirky cast shines through in their banter … Lacks the layers of the author’s previous works … His set pieces entertain.”
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Fiction.
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About the book
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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.
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Catalogue record
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025 · 260 pages
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025
- Pages
- 260
- LC
- PS3573.A4722834 S64
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-286814-5
Full recordClose
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025
- Pages
- 260
- LC
- PS3573.A4722834 S64
- ISBN
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- 978-0-06-286814-5
- Editions
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- HarperCollins Publishers, 2025
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2025, hardcover, 260 pages
- Author
- Walter, Jess, 1965–
- Statement
- So Far Gone / Jess Walter.
- Records
- Open Library Wikidata LCCN 2024043225
- United States
- 2020s
- American literature