The dog Stars

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Call Number: Fiction / Heller, Peter, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Heller, Peter
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Heller, Peter	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Heller, Peter	4-week checkout	Due 05-09-2024
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Heller, Peter	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

"This is a Borzoi book."

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Oddly poetic end-of-the-world story. submitted by eknapp on December 31, 2013, 10:08pm Ten years after the world ends, a pilot who lives with a misanthropic--but effective--survivalist nutjob flies off past his point-of-no-return to investigate a staticky radio transmission from three years previous.

Heller employs a weird, poetic style, eschewing quotation marks, sentences, pretty much all the cues I've been trained to rely on. It was awkward but effective at putting the reader in the head of the lonely, romantic, maybe-losing-it-a-little contractor-pilot protagonist.

Not terribly satisfying as an apocalypse novel. There's very little exploration of how the world ended (plague) or what was left afterward (evidently nothing) or what might be salvageable. Everyone is either Bad or dead. Guess Heller isn't a big believer in civilization.

Star submitted by smr on July 1, 2020, 2:11pm 4star

sometimes ugly story, beautifully written submitted by apknapp on August 16, 2020, 6:30pm Reminded me a lot of Cormac McCarthy's The Road--stream-of-consciousness, first-person narrative, sometimes choppy, always very intense, believable. Painful mix of hope and grief--hard to say which is more heartbreaking, the thought of losing everything or the thought of wanting to go on living after. Vivid flashbacks to various timepoints--before the end, during the end, just after the end--which made for a really interesting way to piece together the dissolution of society, as filtered through one man's remembered losses. And lots of lovely detail in the character's knowledge, personal history. Not a fun read, but a very, very good book.