Name: Burn
Price: 32.30 EUR
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Author: Peter Heller
ISBN: 9780593946787

Type

Physical Book

Author

Peter Heller

Publisher

Random House Large Print Publishing

Language

English

Pages

456

Format

Paperback

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9780593946787

Synopsis "Burn"

From the acclaimed author of The Last Ranger, a novel about two men--friends since boyhood--who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country wracked by bewildering violence Every year Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to northern Maine, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving much from their long friendship unspoken. Although the state has convulsed all summer with secession mania--a mania that had simultaneously spread across other states--Jess and Storey figure it's a fight reserved for legislators or, worse-case scenario, folks in the capitol. But after two weeks hunting moose off the grid, the men reach a small town and are shocked to find a bridge blown apart, buildings burned to the ground, and bombed-out cars abandoned on the road. Trying to make sense of the sudden destruction all around them, the men set their sights on finding their way home, dragging a wagon across bumpy dirt roads, ransacking boats left in the lakes, and dodging men who are armed--secessionists or military, they cannot tell--as they seek a path to safety. And then, a startling discovery, a child in the cabin of a boat, drastically alters their path and the stakes of their escape. Drenched with the beauty of the natural world, and attuned to the specific cadences of male friendship, even here at the edge of doom, Heller's magisterial new novel is both a blistering warning of a divided country's political strife and an ode to the salvation of our chosen families.

Peter Heller

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La primera gran aventura que emprendió Peter Heller, a los 29 años, también podría haber sido la última. El primer día de esa peligrosísima expedición en kayak por las aguas de la meseta tibetana uno de sus compañeros de aventura murió en sus brazos. Desde entonces no ha parado de explorar los límites de la naturaleza y también de la escritura.

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