Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Jean Hegland
• Title: Into The Forest
• Publisher: ‎ Dial Press Trade Paperbacks (1998)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Trade Paperback – 241 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0553379615
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0553379617
• Item Weight: ‎ .68 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 5.2 x 0.55 x 8.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Cover Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.

About the Author:

Jean Hegland was born in eastern Washington, and moved to northern California in the mid-eighties, where she has divided her time between raising her family, teaching, and writing.

Jean's first novel, INTO THE FOREST, has been translated into over a dozen languages and is a frequent choice for campus- and community-wide reading programs. A film version starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2015. DANS LA FORÊT, the 2017 French translation of INTO THE FOREST has been a best-seller in France. A graphic novel adaptation is in production.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY promises that Jean's second novel, WINDFALLS, is “a good prospect for reading groups.” Excerpts from her non-fiction work, THE LIFE WITHIN: CELEBRATION OF A PREGNANCY, have appeared in a junior high school science textbook, a college English textbook, and a guided journal for pregnant women.

STILL TIME, Jean's most recent novel, celebrates the work of William Shakespeare while taking a hopeful look at the challenges of dementia.

Jean is a frequent presenter at writers' conferences and has taught creative writing for many years, both in California and abroad. She lives in the Northern Californian woods where she is always at work on another book. Keep up with Jean at her website, www.jean-hegland.com.