num_pages: 456
description: Walter Van Brunt is a dreamer, and a lover of drugs, alcohol and speed. He likes nothing better than to fly along on his motorbike, invincible and immortal. But one day, dodging a mysterious shadow on the road, he crashes into a barrier and loses his right foot. Walter is a descendant of Dutch yeomen and since the day of the accident he has been haunted by their ghosts. When he receives a new plastic foot he is determined to find his father who deserted his family years ago, and to uncover the secrets of his ancestors.
language: English
title: World's End
titlecomplete: World's End
genres: American, Historical, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 4237
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Bloomsbury