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The river : a novel / Peter Heller.

Summary:

From Peter Heller, the bestselling author of 'The Dog Stars', comes a masterful tale of wilderness survival in the vein of 'Into the Wild' and 'The Call of the Wild'. 'The River' is a story of two college friends on a wilderness canoe trip in northern Canada - a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, starvation, and brutality.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525521877 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 253 pages : map ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Subject: Canoes and canoeing > Fiction.
Wildfires > Fiction.
Wilderness survival > Canada, Northern > Fiction.
Canada, Northern > Fiction.
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction)

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch FIC Helle 31681010140416 FICTION Available -
Stroud Branch LP FIC Helle 31681010141182 LARGEPT Available -

PETER HELLER is the national bestselling author of Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. The Painter was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and won the prestigious Reading the West Book Award, shared in the past by Western writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Terry Tempest Williams, and The Dog Stars, which was published to critical acclaim and lauded as a breakout bestseller, has been published in twenty-two languages to date. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award for Literature. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry and fiction and lives in Denver, Colorado.


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