The Revenant
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4.1 • 71 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Winner of 3 OSCARS including BEST DIRECTOR and BEST ACTOR
Winner of 5 BAFTAS including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film
Winner of the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor – Drama, and Best Director
The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
Hugh Glass isn’t afraid to die. He’s done it once already.
Rocky Mountains, 1823
The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker.
But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. But, fearing an imminent attack, they abandon Glass, stripping him of his prized rifle and hatchet.
As Glass watches the men flee, he is driven to survive by one all-consuming desire: revenge. With shocking grit and determination, he sets out on a three-thousand-mile journey across the harsh American frontier, to seek revenge on the men who betrayed him.
The Revenant is a remarkable tale of obsession and the lengths that one man will go to for retribution.
Reviews
‘A spellbinding tale of heroism and obsessive retribution’ Publishers Weekly
‘A superb revenge story . . . Punke has added considerably to our understanding of human endurance and of the men who pushed west in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark – a significant feat’ Washington Post
About the author
Michael Punke serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Beautiful and brutal in equal measure, this compulsive adventure story is based on the real-life adventures of American frontiersman Hugh Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio, in a Golden Globe-winning role). Set in the unforgiving, icy wilderness of 19th-century South Dakota—where Glass is savagely mauled by a mother bear and abandoned on the brink of death—The Revenant had us reading at breakneck speed. Despite the book’s grisliness, we couldn’t tear our eyes away from Michael Punke’s sparse, unrelenting prose as the wounded Glass refuses to give up his fight for survival and revenge.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing
Ok book,but the climax just petered out..
I expected a dramatic full on powerful ending,but it did not deliver.
After all, the whole premise in the book is that Glass is driven relentlessly by revenge.
Entertaining in parts but not terribly believable.
Sort of like a firecracker that fizzles out.
A shame really.