- Survival, End of the world, Fiction, Adventure stories
"Hig is a survivor. He has survived the sickness that claimed his wife and family, and the trout he loved to fish. He is coping, just, in the new wilderness of post-apocalyptic America, because he has three things to live for - his dog, Jasper, his neighbour, Bangley, and his Cessna plane. But Hig's loneliness is becoming unbearable. When he picks up the distorted voice of another human on his radio, he is unable to shake the thought that there might be someone else out there. He knows he should resist looking - the journey will be risky and there will not be enough fuel to fly back - but he cannot. And so, one bleak day, he flies over the horizon in search of the truth..." --Publisher description.
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Earnest, contemporary, grave and classical in form.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Peter Heller
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Charnwood, Knopf
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307959942
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