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The Dog Stars - Peter Heller

The Dog Stars

By Peter Heller

  • Release Date: 2012-08-07
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 4.5
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From 1,107 Ratings
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).

Hig's 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.

But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.

Reviews

  • Have read multiple times ;)

    5
    By print4apet.com
    Can’t get enough of this adventure type story, ticks lots of boxes for me and will continue to read over an over. Just when you think you have figured it out, something new comes around, pulls at your heart, makes you think about life and what you have now, teaches ya to stop an smell the flowers!

  • A keeper

    5
    By kistygimmee
    Read twice now….just as compelling the 2nd time around!

  • Unexpected and a good read

    5
    By enob1918
    I didn’t prepare before reading and almost stopped near the beginning thinking this will be a depressing story I don’t want to read through. But it got better and better.

  • The Dog Stars

    5
    By Masanobu Cortéz
    A similar world, less dark, less shattered than Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”, but dark nonetheless, with the faint fragile hope of healing, like a momentarily guttering flame before it rises up again to grow and give more light. Keepin’ this book. As the various ravages of “Overshoot” tear through the fragile complexity of industrial civilization and this book proves, at least in it’s essence to be prophetic, I will read it again with pleasure.

  • Excellent read!

    5
    By Booruss
    My favorite book from Peter Heller so far.

  • Couldn’t read it fast enough but didn’t want it to end.

    5
    By Jory Colvin
    Fantastic read about life after catastrophe. A well written story that I could not put down. An interesting setting that makes you realize how beneficial a secure perimeter is in a survival scenario. I would rate this right up there with “one second after” and the “going home” series.

  • Loved it!

    5
    By lllydolly
    So unusual, weird punctuation and stream of consciousness writing....just wonderful!

  • Anything by Peter is good!

    5
    By MandoDoesIt
    He is definitely a skilled writer, and very different! This is one of my favorite books!

  • Beautiful!

    5
    By Shakira without the Sha
    Loved seeing the world through Hig's eyes. Beautifully written.

  • Highly Recommended

    5
    By Dug go
    All I really ask of a book is that I can't stop reading even when I know I should! This a great story beautifully written. Period.

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