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 | | Alaska — they’ll relocate their utopia to the Far North, on land by the Thirtymile River that Norm’s old coot uncle has left him. |
 | | The novel takes on new vigor, a Hemingwayesque economy and Faulknerian depth, when it switches to that leathery trapper, outcast, and binge drinker who dwells on the fringes of the Arctic Circle in Boynton, Alaska, just a bend or two down the river from the eventual location of Drop City North. |
 | | Nature, of course, is red in tooth and claw, and from the very beginning the mealy-mouthed vegetarians of Drop City have a hard time adjusting to the idea that they’re not going to survive the long winter on granola alone, that pastoral splendor is bought with the blood of butchered lambs. |
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