Here he spends his days painting and fly fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado.
Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. For me a book is an epic fail when all I want is the female character to get her head blown off.Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. And in the end, it had no redeeming qualities for me. At the point where there was a hint of physical attraction of one of them men towards the helpless woman, I was done with the book. The “damsel in distress” genre is my least favorite. The book fell apart with the introduction of what would be the only female character and whose sole purpose is to be gravely injured and in need to be cared for and rescued by the fantasy men. And thus starts my extreme dislike of the story. At one point, the book describes how one can run 2 hours uphill with a female with cerebral palsy on his back. At first I liked the two main characters who seemed like fantasy men, smart yet brilliant outdoorsmen. I was expecting/hoping for a great wilderness adventure story and for a while I thought this book was delivering. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman?įrom this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival. But: The next day, a man appears on the river, paddling alone. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in Northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing.
Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water.
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." (Alison Borden, The Denver Post )įrom the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip - a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards
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