The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic novel, published in , by Peter Heller. It was selected as the Apple iBooks Novel of the Year, and an Atlantic Monthly and San Francisco Examiner Best Book of the Year. It follows the experience of Hig, the narrator, and his partner, Bruce Bangley, as the two patrol and protect their eight-mile perimeter around an abandoned airport in Erie, Colorado, outside of Denver, . ― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars. 13 likes. Like “I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag into the chill and found the rough ground with my bare foot and rocked myself back and forth. And watched the stars swim against the mesh of www.doorway.ru: Peter Heller. · “The Dog Stars is a compelling debut from author Peter Heller, which decisively strikes at the ever-arching desire to know what makes us human Gruff, tormented and inspirational, Heller has the astonishing ability to make you laugh, cringe and feel ridiculously vulnerable throughout the novel that will have you rereading certain passages with a hard lump in the pit of your www.doorway.ru: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
The Dog Stars Themes. Throughout The Dog Stars, displacement is a major theme. The novel's narrative present is nine years after a combination of a superflu and blood disease have wiped out most of humanity, effectively displacing those who live through the pandemic from the life and society they once knew. In regard to his plight and present. Author Peter Heller talks about his novel The Dog Stars:www.doorway.ru In his first novel, The Dog Stars, Peter Heller slyly co-opts this current cultural obsession with zombies and post-apocalyptic scenarios to tell an original adventure story set in an uncomfortably near American future. The Dog Stars begins nine years after most of the U.S. population has been devastated by a mysterious flu. Heller's.
The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Peter Heller. Set in Colorado, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound. The Dog Stars. by. Peter Heller. · Rating details · 56, ratings · 7, reviews. 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. “The Dog Stars by Peter Heller is a heavenly book, a stellar achievement by a debut novelist that manages to combine sparkling prose with truly memorable, shining, characters. It contains constellations of grand images and ideas, gleams with vitality, and sparkles with wit.
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