The Mountain Story The Mountain Story

The Mountain Story

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Publisher Description

Five days. Four hikers. Three survivors. From Lori Lansens, author of the national bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls and The Wife's Tale comes a gripping tale of adventure, sacrifice and survival in the unforgiving wilderness of a legendary mountain.
     On his 18th birthday, Wolf Truly takes the tramway to the top of the mountain that looms over Palm Springs, intending to jump to his death. Instead he encounters strangers wandering in the mountain wilderness, three women who will change the course of his life. Through a series of missteps he and the women wind up stranded, in view of the city below, but without a way down. They endure five days in freezing temperatures without food or water or shelter, and somehow find the courage to carry on.
     Wolf, now a grown man, has never told his son, or anyone, what happened on the mountain during those five days, but he can't put it off any longer. And in telling the story to his only child, Daniel, he at last explores the nature of the ties that bind and the sacrifices people will make for love. The mountain still has a hold on Wolf, composed of equal parts beauty and terror.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
April 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
7.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Montypoop ,

The Mountain Story

Loved it! Great characters and story, sad that it ended.

Noseyrosy ,

The Mountain Story.

This is a fabulous read, a real page turner!
The writing is superb and the story is beautifully crafted. I loved the characters and their personalities and foibles. Lori Lansens portrays so many aspects in these people. Humour intelligence, thoughtfulness. Trust, fear, stupidity.
A coming of age, love and caring.
I loved this book.

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