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Knopf
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0307959945
EAN: 9780307959942
Kindle: B007GZELF2
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Fiction Family Life
A riveting, powerful novel about a pilot living in a world
filled with loss—and what he is willing to risk to
rediscover, against all odds, connection, love, and grace. 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. Narrated by a man who is part warrior and part dreamer, a
hunter with a great shot and a heart that refuses to harden,
The Dog Stars is both savagely funny and achingly sad, a
breathtaking story about what it means to be human.
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