Ebook {Epub PDF} The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

The world in Peter Heller’s THE DOG STARS is a post-apocalyptic one. The United States, and presumably the rest of Earth, has been drastically depopulated by a variant strain of influenza, and many of the survivors struck with a blood and body fluid-born disease that causes a slow, wasting death/5(K). The light in Heller's writing streams onto the page 'The Dog Stars,' by Peter Heller is yet another post-apocalyptic thriller, but Heller creates more than just a violent, barren, hellish vision of our possible future. Somehow he is able to attenuate the inevitability of loss and the violence of /5.  · The Dog Stars. Peter Heller. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 7, - Fiction - pages. Reviews. Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he 4/5().

Hig goes hunting, fishing and flies his plane with his dog Jasper as co-pilot, he is something of a dreamer. What he finds isn't what he expected but it does open up the opportunity of a future of some kind. I give this book 5 stars, I also felt highly about The Road by Cormac McCarthy and as it says on. One runs away." ― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars. To animate somehow the deathly stillness of the profoundest beauty. Breathe life in the telling." ― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars. Then the dog dies. I put it down for a few weeks but then I picked it back up and finished it off tonight. Things actually did take a more positive turn and it ends very hopefully. I liked: 1. The dog. 2. I enjoy all post-apocalyptic scenarios and this one was great. 3. The final rush of action at the end.

“The Dog Stars is a compelling debut from author Peter Heller, which decisively strikes at the ever-arching desire to know what makes us human Gruff, tormented and inspirational, Heller has the astonishing ability to make you laugh, cringe and feel ridiculously vulnerable throughout the novel that will have you rereading certain passages with a hard lump in the pit of your stomach. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”. ― Peter Heller, The Dog Stars. tags: love, mindfulness, peace-of-mind. 20 likes. Like. The Dog Stars. Peter Heller. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 7, - Fiction - pages. Reviews. Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is.