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So Far Gone

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National Bestseller

"A warm, funny, loving novel. . . . It's an American original."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake

"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

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).

Book Details

ISBN: 

9780062868145

EAN: 

0062868144

Binding: 

Hardcover

Pages: 

272

Authors: 

Jess Walter

Publisher: 

Harper

Published Date: 2025-10-06

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Asheley
Great story! Jess Walters is brilliant.

First of all, there is no way I'd ever have picked this up if someone else written it. But Jess Walters is brilliant (just like Kevin Wilson is brilliant). He was able to make this story funny while still including some fairly serious themes. At heart is remarkable character growth for Rhys, who was "so far gone" in his thinking that he left society and went out to live in the woods where the world couldn't get to him anymore. But leaving society also meant leaving his family behind, and boy oh boy he had to work hard to make things right. It's a really, really good book.

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Bruce L. McMillan
Not Shakespear

Fun story.

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Amazon Customer
Another very satisfying book by J Walter

An excellent read. Walter has written a very accessible book that resonates on a human and societal level. And he manages once again to work in an Easter egg re his eye. Really well done

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Vegas89052
Not really my cup of tea - but glad I read it

I purchased the this book because I am familiar with the Eastern Washington setting and it was recommended by a local reviewer. I lean more to the spy novel / espionage genre - but I wanted to try something different. The story is about redemption and correcting mistakes in behavior. I enjoyed the book, didn’t really love it, but am glad I read it.

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J. Lyon
Different

Different but a fun read.