Product Description(Amazon.com)
This book is set in Colorado after a superflu has culled most of humanity. A man named Hig lives in a former airport community—McMansions built along the edge of a runway—which he shares with his 1956 Cessna, his dog, and a slightly untrustworthy survivalist. He spends his days flying the perimeter, looking out for intruders and thinking about the things he’s lost—his deceased wife, the nearly extinct trout he loved to fish. When a distant beacon sparks in him the realization that something better might be out there, it’s only a matter of time before he goes searching.
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (May 7, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307950476
ISBN-13: 978-0307950475
MY THOUGHTS:
This is my book clubs choice for June. Really awesome book. If you have read Cormack McCarthy's "The Road", you will like this book too. It's full of Hig's thoughts and emotions. And when he stumbles on a man and woman living alone in the mountains, on the other side of Denver, he finds something he's been missing for 9 years. This is the journey of a man, his dog and his new family and how they all survive.
The Dog Stars sounds pretty interesting as it doesn't end in dispair, I've not read PM-TR either. So two more to my list, I'll need to live to 1000 or find more hours to read in :-) have a great weekend
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