The Dog Stars
by Peter Heller | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0307950476 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0307950476 Global Overview for this book
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This copy was distributed for World Book Night on April 23, 2014: "Spreading the love of reading, person to person."
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.
Edited:
I listened to the audio version of the book, and I found the writing lyrical. The narrator really made the characters come alive. I was enthralled by this book, more than I expected to be. I enjoyed the nuances of the relationship between Hig and Bangley, and of course I loved Hig and Jasper. Also, I live near Denver, so I could picture the landscape and imagine what it would be without people.
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.
Edited:
I listened to the audio version of the book, and I found the writing lyrical. The narrator really made the characters come alive. I was enthralled by this book, more than I expected to be. I enjoyed the nuances of the relationship between Hig and Bangley, and of course I loved Hig and Jasper. Also, I live near Denver, so I could picture the landscape and imagine what it would be without people.
I'm sending this book to inkribbon as part of the First Sentences VBB:
"I keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks."
"I keep the Beast running, I keep the 100 low lead on tap, I foresee attacks."
Journal Entry 3 by inkribbon at South Chailey, East Sussex United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Received today, thank you.