Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1983)

THIS BOOK IS AN ALL TIME FAVORITE OF MINE...I KEEP A COPY IN MY BOOKCASE AND GET IT OUT AND READ IT FROM TIME TO TIME...I LIKE THE TIME IT WAS "SET" IN...THE SIMPLENESS OF IT ALL ! ABOUT A MAN WHO WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS TO BE ALONE AND GOT BITTEN BY A SNAKE WHILE HE WAS THERE, THE BOOK GOES ON TO TELL WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ISH RECOVERED AND CAME DOWN OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS TO DISCOVER A WORLD VERY DIFFERENT THAN THE ONE HE HAD LEFT ONLY WEEKS BEFORE.....A VIRUS HAD TRAVELED QUICKLY THRUOUT THE WORLD AND THERE WERE NOT MANY PEOPLE LEFT...I LIKED THE SYMBOL OF STRENGTH THE HAMMER SEEMS TO STAND FOR IN ISH'S LIFE...LIKE A HAMMER, HE STAYED STRONG THRUOUT ONE LOSS AFTER ANOTHER ...THIS BOOK WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BACK IN THE 1940'S...THIS IS A BOOK I WOULD DEFINATELY RECOMMEND READING !...