The River
A novel
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The River
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Narrateur(s):
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Mark Deakins
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Auteur(s):
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Peter Heller
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post
From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.
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Ce que les critiques en disent
"Utter joy... A suspenseful tale told with glorious drama and lyrical flair."
—Denise Mina, The New York Times Book Review
"Urgent, visceral writing--I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. A beautiful, heartrending exploration of male friendship."
—Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of Let Me Lie
"[T]here is plenty of tension here, but where Heller really scores is the extraordinarily high quality of his writing about the natural world, which is lyrical and action-packed by turns."
—Laura Wilson, The Guardian
"A fiery tour de force… [The River] recalls his debut, The Dog Stars, with its poetic, staccato sentences and masterfully crafted prose… And what a story he tells… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful."
—Alison Borden, The Denver Post
"[A] poetic and unnerving wilderness thriller… Full of rushing life and profound consequences. Every move Jack and Wynn make along the river has the chance to kill them or those they’re trying to save, and the result is a novel that sweeps you away, each page filled with wonder and awe for a natural world we can quantify with science but can rarely predict with emotion."
—Tod Goldberg, USA Today
"Heller puts his knowledge of canoeing and currents to fascinating use. He has created indelible characters in Wynn and Jack, pals who are almost exact opposites: the former a bearish galoot who’s convinced that people are basically good, and the latter a pessimist who’s convinced that their only hope for salvation is to paddle as fast as they can."
—Ross Gray, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Another superbly crafted adventure-action-mystery story… Reminiscent of James Dickey’s classic Deliverance… The beat of Heller’s novel builds to a furious pace."
—John Newlin, New York Journal of Books
"Engaging...satisfying... Terse and tight. Short, lyrical paragraphs are packed with action and keep the story moving along... Like a lot of backcountry missions, the most compelling parts of the story aren’t necessarily the rapids or the high-risk moves. Instead they’re the quiet moments where Wynn and Jack are coupling their rods together and wading slowly through vivid, tannic streams."
—Heather Hansman, Outside Magazine
“It is a rare literary feat when an author is able to marry plot and prose with the soaring majesty that Heller achieves in The River.”
—Drew Gallagher, Fredericksburg Free Lance Star
The author make us sit in the canoe with the guys.
Great tension
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It was OK. Enjoyed the setting.
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Emotive, gripping, immersive
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The setting is the "Northern Canadian wilderness" and it read like the author worked from a map but never experienced it himself (I was expecting nature writing evoking a specific place and that is not what I got). The suspense of "will the forest fire burn us up" was somewhat engaging but the suspense of "did this woman get attacked by her husband or by a bear" failed to catch hold: the answer was obvious. The second subplot ("who are these rednecks who are also inexplicably excellent outdoorsmen while at the same time lazy and drunk") failed to take the reader anywhere interesting (and why is no one but Americans canoeing in the Manitoba wilderness?).
The narrator was fine. Some of his pronunciation was distracting to this Canuck canoeist -- for example he said PORT-age rather than port-AGE, but perhaps that is how they say it in America and all of the characters were, after all, American.
A wasted opportunity
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