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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 lossβand 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 lifeβsomething like his old lifeβexists beyond the airport. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no returnβnot enough fuel to get him homeβfollowing the trail of the static-broken voice on the radio. But what he encounters and what he must faceβin the people he meets, and in himselfβis 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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