Sharp and dangerous virtues : a novel / Martha Moody.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moody, Martha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Government policy--Fiction.

Food supply.

Dayton (Ohio)--Fiction.

Dayton (Ohio).

United States--Foreign relations--Fiction.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It's 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area-the "Heartland Grid"-just north of the city. In the meantime, in the wake of declining American power a multinational force has established itself in Cleveland. Behind these quickly shifting alliances lies a troubling yet tantalizing question: what will the American future look like? Sharp and Dangerous Virtues is the story of ordinary people caught in situations they had never planned for or even imagined. There are Chad and Sharis,

Contents:

2047; a family and a place; tuuro and the boy; lila wakes up (1); what sharis knew; wanted; some tales of sanity; true believers; always a story; a dose of yearning with themashed potatoes; flying; waiting for winter; the monitor station; nenonene's voice; 2048; tuuro's confession; esslandia; "human folly is always amusing"; baby lettuces; hubris; talking to howard; identity, mistaken; migrations, implantation; a very clear window; lila wakes up (2); the face of war; the safeplace camp; memorial day; don't shoot me; 2071; not the end of the world; acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8040-4051-6

OCLC:

884016952