Through the Heart

Grant, Richard. Through the Heart. New York: Bantam, 1992.

See for "the Oasis," a very large land vehicle that is like a cruise ship sailing (so to speak) an American heartland after an ecological disaster. See also for brief references to "the Province of Industry," where the population may all live in "big underground places": "Like huge tunnels or something" (260-61), and for the "Penitents" of "the Bright Land"—repenting for past technophilia and the priesthood of scientists (303-332; see also 373-75). (Carol Stevens/Rich Erlich, 2/01/93; 23/08/06)