Wild Animus
by Rich Shapero | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0971880107 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0971880107 Global Overview for this book
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In the summer of 1969, a disillusioned Berkeley graduate leaves behind a world of protests and riots to follow a wild, inner calling. Sam Altman is an intense young man with an animal energy whose unleashed and increasingly unhinged imagination takes him first to Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness.
Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman who understands his quest, and who will do anything to help him realize it—no matter how bizarre or dangerous. On the unforgiving ridges of Mt. Wrangell, alone with his reckless ideas and a driving need to uncover his innermost self, Sam, who has renamed himself Ransom, gradually transforms himself into a ram—prey to a pack of strangely familiar wolves.
The mad pursuit leads from the wilds to civilization and back again. And when Sam and Lindy return to brave the perilous mountain together, the truth behind his imagined transformation emerges. What they discover in those frozen heights threatens their love as well as their sanity and their lives.
Wild Animus is a search for the primordial, a test of human foundations, and a journey to the breaking point. This is a story of love and sacrifice, of obsession, of finding the limits of the heart, and going one step farther.
In the summer of 1969, a disillusioned Berkeley graduate leaves behind a world of protests and riots to follow a wild, inner calling. Sam Altman is an intense young man with an animal energy whose unleashed and increasingly unhinged imagination takes him first to Seattle and then farther north, to the remote Alaskan wilderness.
Sam has fallen deeply in love with the mysterious and powerful Lindy, a young woman who understands his quest, and who will do anything to help him realize it—no matter how bizarre or dangerous. On the unforgiving ridges of Mt. Wrangell, alone with his reckless ideas and a driving need to uncover his innermost self, Sam, who has renamed himself Ransom, gradually transforms himself into a ram—prey to a pack of strangely familiar wolves.
The mad pursuit leads from the wilds to civilization and back again. And when Sam and Lindy return to brave the perilous mountain together, the truth behind his imagined transformation emerges. What they discover in those frozen heights threatens their love as well as their sanity and their lives.
Wild Animus is a search for the primordial, a test of human foundations, and a journey to the breaking point. This is a story of love and sacrifice, of obsession, of finding the limits of the heart, and going one step farther.
Journal Entry 2 by EllyMae58 at Official BookCrossing Zone in San Diego, California USA on Sunday, December 11, 2005
Your second box made it here today!
It may be a couple of weeks before I can get these to their intended destinations, depending on the weather and general "it's two days before christmas" madness.
It may be a couple of weeks before I can get these to their intended destinations, depending on the weather and general "it's two days before christmas" madness.
I read this back when I got my own arc copy in the mail. For all of the written faults, I actually ended up enjoying it. Though I can see where other may find it a less than enjoyable read.
Journal Entry 5 by nimrodiel at Café Express at Sherman & Dempster in Evanston, Illinois USA on Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Released 18 yrs ago (2/14/2006 UTC) at Café Express at Sherman & Dempster in Evanston, Illinois USA
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Book was left on the shelves in the back.
Book was left on the shelves in the back.
Found this at Café Express Wednesday night. I read a few chapters and decided that it isn't my kind of book, so I will re-release it soon.
Journal Entry 7 by rampallion at Donated to Evanston Public Library in Evanston, Illinois -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (6/25/2006 UTC) at Donated to Evanston Public Library in Evanston, Illinois -- Controlled Releases
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