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| Original Title: | The Dog Stars |
| ISBN: | 0307959945 (ISBN13: 9780307959942) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Colorado(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012), Prix Une autre Terre (2014) |
Peter Heller
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.92 | 50767 Users | 6883 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dog Stars |
| Author | : | Peter Heller |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | August 7th 2012 by Knopf |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic. Science Fiction. Dystopia |
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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.Rating Epithetical Books The Dog Stars
Ratings: 3.92 From 50767 Users | 6883 ReviewsAssess Epithetical Books The Dog Stars
8/14/12: I heard the author read from this last night. I'm SO glad I made the effort to do so as he was fantastic. A little scary to begin a book with such high expectations, but I really feel good about this one. Here goes...8/18/12: Best book of 2012? Very likely it will be for me.The writing is very unique and takes a few pages to get used to, but it becomes so personal and powerful that I inhabited the world of Hig and his beloved dog, Jasper. I don't think I fully returned to reality duringOne star for this, only because I couldn't finish it. The writing style of this book drove me bat-shit crazy. In addition to no quotation marks AT ALL, here are a few examples of sentence composition."For the dog he said. Angry. Because I didn't do my job. To him.""But.""The way the landscape falls into place around the drainages, the capillaries and arteries of falling water: mountain slopes bunched and wrinkled, wringing themselves into furrows or couloir and creek, draw and chasm, the low
Reluctant Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Publisher Says: A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with lossand what he is willing to risk to rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace.Hig survived the flu that killed everyone he knows. His wife is gone, his friends are dead, he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, his only neighbor a gun-toting misanthrope. In his 1956 Cessna, Hig flies the perimeter of the airfield or sneaks off to the
My sister and I are like twins born four years apart. She is my best friend and I would give her both of my kidneys. Yet, it hasn't always been this way. There was a time that even though we still felt obliged to love each other, we found we had little in common. Four years can be a serious obstacle when you're a teenager. We also belonged to an entirely different social groups. My sister was more of a cheap wine, flannel shirts, suicidal rock singers kind of girl while I tended to find my
Apocalyptic PointlessnessReading The Dog Stars Is like riding in a car with someone who is learning to drive. Lots of jerky shifts, stops, starts, long pauses, and stalls. Meanwhile listening to a constant stream of reminiscence and emotional brain-dump that is intended to camouflage the lack of driving experience. And not going anywhere in particular, of course.Im sure this is a tale meant for a specialised redneck niche (they read but mouth their words) - backwoods pilot and handyman teams up
Meager as it is. Nothing to lose as I have. Nothing is something somehow. Hig doesnt have much, but what he has is precious to him. He has his books of poetry. He has rivers to fish in. He has fuel to fly his plane. He has a furry co-pilot named Jasper. He has a garden. He has Bangley. He used to have a wife. He used to have friends. He used to have the possibility of a long life full of happiness achieving all those things we are supposed to achieve. He wasnt supposed to be old at forty. They
I have had this on my list for a VERY long time. Then we talked to Peter Heller for a Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club author event, and that pushed me right over the edge. I think we were all swooning listening to him talk about his work and his process! In this book, his debut, Hig is one of the few survivors of a flu pandemic, save for his dog and a gun-toting loner. Or so he thinks. When he receives a random transmission on the radio, he begins to dream of what might exist beyond life on the
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