The Dog Stars

The Dog Stars

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to perform some small kindness. The Dog Stars is a wholly compelling and deeply engaging debut.” —Pam Houston, author of Contents May Have Shifted

A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world filled with loss—and 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 mountains to fish and to pretend that things are the way they used to be. But when a random transmission somehow beams through his radio, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life—something like his old life—exists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return—not enough fuel to get him home—following the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must face—in the people he meets, and in himself—is both better and worse than anything he could have hoped for.

Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden, The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a breathtaking story about what it means to be human.
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Format
Hardcover
Seitenzahl
336
Preis
10.91 €

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I usually do not read post-apocalyptic books but the description of this one intrigued me somehow. I did enjoy it a lot, though the format is very different and i am not sure it would work on other books (just indirect speech, some sentences are more like thoughts and jumbled together). I did not know what i expected this book to be so maybe that was a good thing since it ended pretty anticlimatic i think. It did have an overall arc of someone living in a 'different' world and trying to find his way, finding a meaning for him and trying to keep 'living'. I liked the sadness overall, the brutal things they have to do to survive and the small parts of hope and, as i said, the writing style was very weird but worked very well for this book.I might come back and edit this since i just finished it and probably need some time to think about it.

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